The dissociative chemisorption of molecular D 2 on Ag is reported for the first time. Dissociation on the Ag(111) surface is highly activated with an approximately exponential dependence on the energy of the incident molecules, the initial sticking probability increasing from = 10 -7 at 230 meV to 1
Dissociative adsorption of O2 on Ag(111)
โ Scribed by M.E.M. Spruit; A.W. Kleyn
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 635 KB
- Volume
- 159
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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โฆ Synopsis
Thermal energy atom scattering (TEAS) is used to determine the initial sticking probability So for dissociative chemisorption of Oe on Ag( I 1 I ). Mixed beams of He and O2 are used to study Se as a function of energy of the molecule (MBTEAS) At thermal energies S, is about 3.5 x 10m6. It drops to immeasurably low values with increasing energy and rises to about 1 x lo-' on further increase of the incident energy (1.6 eV at 45" ). &, seems to scale with E,. Two different mechanisms are responsible for sticking At low energies physisorption-mediated sticking is dominant, and at high energies sticking via an activated precursor prevails. The adsorbed oxygen is removed in a first-order process with a decay time of 1000 s, as determined from the time dependence of the TEAS signal.
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