The chemisorption of NO on Si(1 1 1)-7 × 7 surface: a DFT study

✍ Scribed by Zheng Su; Xin Lu; Qianer Zhang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 375
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(03)00841-8

✦ Synopsis

The adsorption of NO on the Si(1 1 1)-7 Â 7 surface has been investigated by means of hybrid density functional (B3LYP) cluster model calculations. It is shown that both monomeric and dimeric adspecies can be formed upon NO adsorption. The monomeric adspecies adopt bent configurations with the N-end of the admolecule forming a covalent N-Si bond with a surface atom (adatom or restatom). Three dimeric adspecies have been found either adopting cis-N 2 O 2 configuration or trans-N 2 O 2 configurations with rather short N@N bond length. These dimeric adspecies should be subject to further decomposition to eliminate N 2 or N 2 O.