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Well-defined clean surfaces of single crystalline β-FeSi 2 have for the first time been prepared and characterized at the atomic scale. Surface oxide was removed by heating the crystal at 850°C in ultra-high vacuum (UHV), resulted in an atomically flat, clean surface. Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) measurements reveal the absence of long-range...