A LEED study of NO superstructures on the Pd(111) surface

被引:6
作者
Kostelnik, Petr [1 ]
Sikola, Tomas [1 ]
Varga, Peter [2 ]
Schmid, Michael [2 ]
机构
[1] Brno Univ Technol, Inst Engn Phys, Brno 61669, Czech Republic
[2] Vienna Univ Technol, Inst Allgemeine Phys, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
关键词
ELECTRON-DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; METAL-SURFACES; TENSOR LEED; CHEMISORPTION; ADSORPTION; DFT; RH(111); PT(111); OXIDE; SITE;
D O I
10.1088/0953-8984/21/13/134005
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
We have examined two adsorption structures of NO on the Pd(111) surface and the transformation between them. Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) I (V) curves of the Pd(111)-p(2 x 2)-NO and Pd(111)-c(4 x 2)-NO surface structures were acquired and analyzed using tensor LEED. Our structural models confirm a previous study by scanning tunneling microscopy and DFT (Hansen et al 2002 Surf. Sci. 496 1). In the c(4 x 2)-NO structure, which forms at an NO coverage of 0.5 monolayers (ML), the NO molecules occupy fcc and hcp hollow sites and are almost upright with only slight tilting, possibly related to NO-NO repulsion. In the p(2 x 2)-NO structure (0.75 ML), with two NO molecules in hollow sites and one in an on-top site, we find strong tilting of the on-top molecule. Upon heating, thermal desorption of NO leads to a transition from the p(2 x 2) to the c(4 x 2) structure, which leads to splitting of the diffraction spots and/or streaky spots. The transition is discussed in terms of domain walls.
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