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        <journal-title>St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Journal: Physics and Mathematics</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Научно-технические ведомости СПбГПУ. Физико-математические науки</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2304-9782, 2618-8686, 2405-7223</issn>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18721/JPM.184.104</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Experimental and ab initio study of Si(111)(2/3)√3×(2/3)√3-Mg models</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Экспериментальное исследование и ab initio расчеты моделей Si(111)(2/3)√3×(2/3)√3-Mg</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ryzhkova</surname>
            <given-names>Maria</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>lavric@iacp.dvo.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bondarenko</surname>
            <given-names>Leonid</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>bondarenko@iacp.dvo.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Tsukanov</surname>
            <given-names>Dmitry</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>tsukanov@iacp.dvo.ru</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-12-31">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>4.1</issue>
      <fpage>26</fpage>
      <lpage>30</lpage>
      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>In the present work, using VASP and AIRSS, we have modelled possible structures of Si(111)(2/3)√3×(2/3)√3-Mg. Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations using pseudopotentials were employed to investigate structural models of the Si(111)(2/3)√3×(2/3)√3-Mg surface. A number of models were analyzed in a 2×2 surface cell. The study identifies the most energetically favorable structure in the 2×2 configuration as the “7-3_random” model, which contains 1.75 monolayers (ML) of Mg and 0.75 ML of Si. The results of ab initio calculations are well confirmed by experimental methods (STM and LEED observations).</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <kwd>magnesium silicide</kwd>
        <kwd>silicon surface</kwd>
        <kwd>ultrathin films</kwd>
        <kwd>density functional theory</kwd>
        <kwd>ultra-high vacuum</kwd>
        <kwd>surface structure</kwd>
        <kwd>surface structure simulation</kwd>
        <kwd>surface energy</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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