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Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Anisotropic electric surface resistance of Cu(110)

A Otto1, P Lilie2, P Dumas2, C Hirschmugl3, M Pilling3 and G P Williams4

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The electric surface resistance is measured without contacts by grazing incidence of p-polarized infrared (IR) radiation for the adsorbates CO and C2H4, which settle on top of the close packed atomic ridges of Cu(110) in the lang1, -1, 0rang direction. Surface resistance has only been observed for the IR electric currents in this direction. This can be explained by the assumption that IR induced currents in the lang001rang direction can only flow in the second and deeper layers of Cu(110). Therefore, in this direction, there is no friction with the adsorbates and hence no surface resistance.


PACS

73.25.+i Surface conductivity and carrier phenomena

78.30.Er Solid metals and alloys

78.68.+m Optical properties of surfaces

78.66.Bz Metals and metallic alloys

68.43.-h Chemisorption/physisorption: adsorbates on surfaces

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Dates

Issue 8 (August 2007)

Received 25 July 2007

Published 28 August 2007



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