ELECTRIC-FIELD INHIBITION AND PROMOTION OF EXCHANGE DIFFUSION ON PT(001)

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KELLOGG, GL
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[1] Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1631
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Direct observations of a Pt adatom migrating on the Pt(001) plane in the presence of an externally applied electric field show that a positive field raises, and a negative field lowers, the activation barrier for the adatom-substrate-atom exchange process. At field strengths of 1.5 V/angstrom and above, inhibition of the exchange mechanism is sufficient to change the diffusion mode from exclusively exchange displacements to a mode that includes hops. The effect of the electric field is explained by an electron-transfer process which changes the bonding of the adatom to neighboring surface atoms.
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页码:1631 / 1634
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