Figure 1

(a) Top view of the reconstructions of the InAs (001) surface compared with the cleaved surface (b) Top view of the c(4 × 4) heterodimers of various surface compositions. For example, ‘As5+In1’ means that the topmost layer is composed of five As atoms and one In atom. These configurations show the lowest surface energy for a given surface composition. All the surface areas correspond to their surface unit cell size except the cleaved surface whose surface unit cell size is indicated by a shaded square. The largest circles indicate the topmost layer.