Manganese Nitride - Mn
3
N
2
(010)
STM image of Mn3N2 (010) showing atomically-smooth terraces. Each step shown
has a height of one monolayer of manganese nitride which has the face-centered tetragonal,
rock-salt structure but with planes of N vacancies standing perpendicular to the surface.
For more details, see
"Structural and Magnetic Properties of eta-phase Manganese Nitride Films Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy",
Appl. Phys. Lett.
78, 3860 (2001).