Direct measurement of Ni incorporation into Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>(001)

Paul T. P. Ryan, Zdeněk Jakub, Jan Balajka, Jan Hulva, Matthias Meier, Johannes T. Küchle, Phil J. Blowey, P. Thakur, Cesare Franchini, David J. Payne,

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2018 · 23 citations · 27 references

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The normal incidence X-ray standing wave (NIXSW) technique has been used to follow the evolution of the adsorption geometry of Ni adatoms on the Fe3O4(001)-(√2 × √2)R45° surface as a function of temperature. Two primary surface region sites are identified: a bulk-continuation tetrahedral site and a sub-surface octahedral site, the latter site being preferred at higher annealing temperatures. The ease of incorporation is linked to the presence of subsurface cation vacancies in the (√2 × √2)R45° reconstruction and is consistent with the preference for octahedral coordination observed in the spinel compound NiFe2O4.

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