The laser-induced desorption of CO adsorbed on an epitaxiahy grown film of Cr203 ( 111) has been studied using 193 nm ( 6.4 eV) laser light. The velocity flux distributions of the desorbing neutral CO in its ground electronic state were recorded quantum state speciticahy by making use of a (1 + 1')
Rotational alignment in the UV-laser induced desorption of CO from Cr2O3(0001)
β Scribed by I. Beauport; K. Al-Shamery; H.-J. Freund
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 632 KB
- Volume
- 256
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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β¦ Synopsis
The rotational alignment of the laser-induced non-thermal desorption of CO adsorbed on an epitaxially grown film of Cr203(0001) has been studied using 193 nm (6.4 eV) laser light and a (1 + I')-REMPI technique. At low rotational quantum numbers J the molecules desorb like a 'helicopter' (J-vector perpendicular to the surface) while at high J-values a 'cartwheel' like motion is preferred (J-vector parallel to the surface). CO is adsorbed in a fiat geometry as a single species. The resulting angular momentum alignment in the laser desorption is interpreted qualitatively as a sum of effects due to corrugation of the surface in the initial state and a change of the adsorption geometry in the intermediate state before desorption.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Two (A/, AK) = (2. -I)-lype vibralionally induced romlionnl transitions in Ihe us state 01 CDF, have been observed by CO2 laser-microwave double resonance. The observed microwave frequencies. combined with rhe available spoxroscopic dam. yield C, = 5673.214@5) MHz and D,, = 4.4(15) kHr.