Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
The Journal of Chemical Physics
106 (1997), S. 2477-2491
ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Molecular beam scattering experiments of O2 from Ag(111) carried out at a surface temperature of 150 K, which is below the desorption temperature for the molecular chemisorption state, show three different scattering paths: physisorption followed by desorption, direct-inelastic scattering and transient trapping-desorption. The transient trapping-desorption process is attributed to transient adsorption of the molecule in a metastable O2δ− state at the surface. The translational desorption energy of the transiently trapped molecules is far above thermal, strongly dependent on the surface temperature and independent of the translational energy and angle of the incident oxygen molecule. A strongly peaked intensity distribution around the surface normal is observed for the desorption. The transient trapping probability shows a sharp increase above a threshold energy and a subsequent decrease with increasing incidence energy. It is accompanied by a strong broadening in the angular direct-inelastically scattered flux distribution. The possible origin of the metastable O2δ− state will be discussed. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.473155
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