It was noted that 180°-neutral impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy measurements demonstrated that the H-induced (1 x 2) reconstruction of Cu(110) was of the missing-row type. Every other close-packed <110> row of the first layer was absent. The reconstruction was observed in the entire exposure range of 3 x 10−4 to 6 x 10−3mbar.s. No evidence was found for a reconstruction involving only displacements of atoms in deeper layers. The lifting of the reconstruction in the temperature range of 290 to 315K could be described by a first-order process with an activation energy of 0.88eV.

H-Induced (1 x 2) Reconstruction of the Cu(110) Surface - Structure and Deconstruction Kinetics. R.Spitzl, H.Niehus, B.Poelsema, G.Comsa: Surface Science, 1990, 239[3], 243-53