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Interaction of oxygen with Al(111) at elevated temperatures

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Trost,  J.
Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Brune,  Harald
Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Wintterlin,  J.
Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Behm,  R. J.
Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Ertl,  Gerhard
Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Trost, J., Brune, H., Wintterlin, J., Behm, R. J., & Ertl, G. (1998). Interaction of oxygen with Al(111) at elevated temperatures. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 108(4), 1740-1747. doi:10.1063/1.475546.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-B528-F
Abstract
The interaction of oxygen with Al(111) was investigated by STM at temperatures between 350 and 530 K, by annealing an oxygen precovered surface and by adsorption of oxygen on the hot surface. For exposures up to 10 L and temperatures up to 470 K a considerable part of the oxygen exists still in the chemisorbed state, another part transforms into Al oxide. In contrast to 300 K chemisorbed Oad atoms are mobile at elevated temperatures, and compact, hexagonal (1×1)Oad islands develop by an ordinary nucleation and growth scheme. This evidences attractive interactions between the oxygen atoms on (1×1) sites. From the lateral distribution of Oad islands a diffusion barrier of 1.0–1.1 eV is derived. The imaging of the islands of the (1×1) phase by STM depends on their size, which is understood by a different imaging of the Oad/Al adsorbate complexes at the island borders. Defects in the islands and bright features at the edges are interpreted as nuclei of aluminum oxide. Additional features which appear as topographic holes may be attributed to nonconducting Al oxide grains.