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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-9-12
pubmed:abstractText
The initial oxidation of the Rh(110) surface was studied by scanning tunneling microscopy, core level spectroscopy, and density functional theory. The experiments were carried out exposing the Rh(110) surface to molecular or atomic oxygen at temperatures in the 500-700 K range. In molecular oxygen ambient, the oxidation terminates at oxygen coverage close to a monolayer with the formation of alternating islands of the (10x2) one-dimensional surface oxide and (2x1)p2mg adsorption phases. The use of atomic oxygen facilitates further oxidation until a structure with a c(2x4) periodicity develops. The experimental and theoretical results reveal that the c(2x4) structure is a "surface oxide" very similar to the hexagonal O-Rh-O trilayer structures formed on the Rh(111) and Rh(100) substrates. Some of the experimentally found adsorption phases appear unstable in the phase diagram predicted by thermodynamics, which might reflect kinetic hindrance. The structural details, core level spectra, and stability of the surface oxides formed on the three basal planes are compared with those of the bulk RhO2 and Rh2O3.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0021-9606
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
125
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
094701
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Initial oxidation of the Rh(110) surface: ordered adsorption and surface oxide structures.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physics, University of Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article