Formation of a metastable ordered surface phase due to competitive diffusion and adsorption kinetics: Oxygen on Pd(100)

S. -L. Chang; P. A. Thiel

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.296

Formation of a metastable ordered surface phase due to competitive diffusion and adsorption kinetics: Oxygen on Pd(100)

S. -L. Chang and P. A. Thiel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 296 – Published 20 July 1987; Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1171 (1987)

Abstract

A metastable c(2×2) structure is formed by atomic oxygen on Pd(100) under conditions of slow diffusion combined with rapid adsorption. We propose that formation of the c(2×2) under these conditions must be controlled by characteristics of the dissociative adsorption event itself.