Helium diffraction from the MgO(001) surface

Abstract

Helium diffraction beam intensity measurements from an in situ cleaved, oxygen-treated, room-temperature surface of MgO(001) are reported. The in-plane spectra obtained at several angles in the main azimuthal planes at beam energies of 17.3 and 63 meV were analyzed using a hard corrugated surface model. A corrugation amplitude of about 0.17 A\r{} gives a fair fit, in agreement with most previous work.