Potassium adsorption on Fe(110)

LEED, AES, UPS and XPS were used to study submonolayer coverages of potassium on Fe(110). At room temperature the maximum potassium coverage is characterized by a LEED superstructure. This LEED pattern is interpreted as being due to a hexagonal close-packed K layer on Fe(110), resulting in a maximum atom density of 5.3 × 10¹⁴ cm^?2, i.e.θ k = 0.31. The work function change and the shift of the K(2p) and K(3p) core levels with potassium coverage indicate a charge transfer from potassium to iron at low potassium coverages.