A method to prepare small single crystals with clean, atomically flat, low-index facets from thin rods or wires of conductive matter under ultrahigh vacuum conditions will be reported. A detailed description of the apparatus and its handling is given. In situ atomic resolution of iodine-passivated Au(111) and Ni(111) facets, using scanning probe microscopes, is presented.
By: Peter Muller, K. Itaya
Published in: RZ3008 in 1998
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