Experimental determination of surface thermal expansion and electron–phonon coupling constant of 1T-PtTe2

Author: Gloria Anemone, Manuela Garnica, Marilena Zappia, Pablo Casado Aguilar, Amjad Al Taleb, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin Shan Lue, Antonio Politano, Giorgio Benedek, Amadeo L Vázquez de Parga, Rodolfo Miranda and Daniel Farías
2D Materials, Volume 7, Number 2 (2020)

Abstract:
We report an extensive structural characterization of the surface of 1T-PtTe₂ crystals by means of helium atom scattering (HAS) and ultra-high resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). HAS reveals that this bi-dimensional surface presents a large structural corrugation….