A new microfacet notation for high-Miller-index surfaces of cubic materials with terrace, step and kink structures

The ideal (i.e. unreconstructed and unrelaxed) strcuture of arbitrary high Miller index surfaces of cubic crystals is analyzed in terms of terraces, steps and kinks, and a new, simple and useful microfacet notation is proposed. The cubic crystals include the simple cubic, facecentered cubic, body-centered cybic, zincblende, NaCl and CsCl crystals.