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The order-disorder phase transition of the Rh(111)-(√3 × √3)R30°-CO phase was investigated by He scattering. The critical temperature turned out to be 330 ± 5K, while the critical exponents are consistent with a phase transition belonging to the 3-state Potts universality class. The temperature dependence below the critical temperature of both CO phases was studied using elastic He scattering and LEED. These measurements demonstrate that a simple Debye-Waller evaluation of the diffraction data is not appropriate to provide information on the vibrational properties of the CO molecules. From LEED measurements at low temperatures (< 70K) and various CO partial pressures there is evidence of the formation of a disordered second CO layer in equilibrium with the gas phase. The isosteric heat of CO adsorption in the second layer is about 6 kJ mol−1.
