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Atomistic calculations for surface stress and the effect of vacancies on the surface stress have been carried out using a two dimensional embedded-atom method model. Stresses due to the presence of the surface are large, localized within a few atomic planes of the surface and vary rapidly with depth with the net stress being a tension. The effect of vacancies at or near the surface is not localized...
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