Photodesorption of NO from chemically modified Ni(111) surfaces

Autor: Xingcai Guo, John T. Yates, Jun Yoshinobu
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: The Journal of Chemical Physics. 92:7700-7707
ISSN: 1089-7690
0021-9606
Popis: NO photodesorption from the oxygen‐covered, oxidized, and sulfur‐saturated Ni(111) surfaces was studied. Temperature programmed desorption effectively discriminates between NO species adsorbed on Ni metal sites and on Ni sites modified by O or S, making the study of photodesorption from each site possible. Oxygen‐ and sulfur‐modified Ni(111) surfaces both exhibit enhanced photodesorption cross sections compared to a clean Ni surface. Both the direct observation of NO(g) photodesorption and postirradiation thermal desorption measurements of NO coverage have been carried out. The photodesorption process is first order in photon flux and in NO coverage within a given chemisorption state. The photon‐energy dependence of the NO photodesorption cross section from oxidized and S‐saturated Ni(111) surfaces was measured in detail over a photon energy range of 1.5–3.8 eV. For both oxidized and sulfur‐saturated Ni(111), the threshold for NO photodesorption is ∼1.5 eV. In addition, the photodesorption cross sections ...
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