Dissociative chemisorption of O2 on Cu(100). Effects of mechanical energy transfer and recoil

✍ Scribed by J. Hall; O. Saksager; I. Chorkendorff

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 528 KB
• Volume: 216
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)90119-l

✦ Synopsis

By using molecular beams we determine two specitic scaling laws for the dissociative sticking of O2 on Cu( 100). It is shown that the interaction process involves transfer of mechanical energy which is characteristic of a classical binary collision. It is demonstrated that the transfer of mechanical energy results in lattice recoil during the collision which has a dramatic effect on the measured sticking probability.