Interference of impurities of magnesium oxide matrix in the spectrographic determination of manganese

Rokosz, A.; Strycharski, P.

doi:10.1007/bf00486732

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“…Contaminants can play a major role in the faceting process. Therefore, it was necessary to determine the presence of impurities and assess their concentration . To this end, both the as‐received and the post‐annealed samples were subjected to investigation by XPS (Fig.…”

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Induced morphological changes on vicinal MgO (100) subjected to high-temperature annealing: step formation and surface stability

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Verre

et al. 2015

Surf. Interface Anal.

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a Highly regular step and terrace structures have been produced on surfaces of single crystalline MgO, miscut from the low-index (001) plane, upon annealing in air. Here, the evolution of the surface morphology of such surfaces is investigated. We demonstrate that the periodicity of these structures can be widely tuned in the submicron range by controlling the annealing conditions. Surface faceting resulted from annealing in the temperature range 1100-1580°C. The surfaces were characterized by atomic force microscope, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscope, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to assess the role of contamination, temperature, and miscut angle in the final morphology. The presence of Al contamination in the post-annealed samples was found to be essential for the formation of the step and terrace structure. The stability of the resultant structures when exposed to ambient conditions is discussed. The cause of the apparent destruction of the surface morphology upon long-term atmospheric exposure has been identified, and a method to recover the faceted morphology is proposed. Overall, the study further facilitates the growth of nanostructures on such faceted surfaces.

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