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Meyerheim, H. L., Sander, D., Popescu, R., Pan, W., Popa, I., Kirschner, J.

Surfactant-mediated growth revisited
Physical Review Letters 99, (11),pp 116101/1-4 (2007)
The x-ray structure analysis of the oxygen-surfactant-mediated growth of Ni on Cu(001) identifies up to 0.15 monolayers of oxygen in subsurface octahedral sites. This questions the validity of the general view that surfactant oxygen floats on top of the growing Ni film. Rather, the surfactant action is ascribed to an oxygen-enriched zone extending over the two topmost layers. Surface stress measurements support this finding. Our results have important implications for the microscopic understanding of surfactant-mediated growth and the change of the magnetic anisotropy of the Ni films.