Experimental evidence for a partially dissociated water bilayer on Ru[0001 |
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Authors: | Weissenrieder Jonas Mikkelsen Anders Andersen Jesper N Feibelman Peter J Held Georg |
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Affiliation: | MAX-lab, Lund University, S-22100 Lund, Sweden. |
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Abstract: | Core-level photoelectron spectra, in excellent agreement with ab initio calculations, confirm that the stable wetting layer of water on Ru[0001] contains O-H and H2O in roughly 3:5 proportion, for OHx coverages between 0.25 and 0.7 ML, and T<170 K. Proton disorder explains why the wetting structure looks to low energy electron diffraction (LEED) to be an ordered p(square root of 3 x square root of 3)R30 degrees adlayer, even though approximately 3/8 of its molecules are dissociated. Complete dissociation to atomic oxygen starts near 190 K. Low photon flux in the synchrotron experiments ensured that the diagnosis of the nature of the wetting structure quantified by LEED is free of beam-induced damage. |
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