• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.88-95
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• 1992

Abstract-Using a high resolution low energy electron diffraction(HRLEED), we report an exponent study of 2d continuous phase transition from an ordered ~ ( 2 x 1 )ox ygen overlayer on a W(110) surface. Temperature dependence of a (% 0) superlattice diffraction spot, characteristic of the p(2X 1) structure, shows power-law like divergence of the susceptibility and the fluctuation correlation length at T,=708.765 K. By fitting the intensities as well as the line-shapes, we obtained exponents P=0.19* 0.05, y=1.48+ 0.34, v= 1.23i 0.27 and q=0.38+ 0.12. The non-universal character of the exponents are understood in terms of a 2d XY model with cubic anisotropy as suggested previously.