Bimodal velocity distributions after ultraviolet-laser-induced desorption of NO 
from oxide surfaces. Experiments and results of model calculations

Mull, Th.; Baumeister, B.; Menges, M.; Freund, Hans-Joachim; Weide, D.; Fischer, C.; Andresen, P.

doi:10.1063/1.462544

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Bimodal velocity distributions after ultraviolet-laser-induced desorption of NO from oxide surfaces. Experiments and results of model calculations

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Mull, T., Baumeister, B., Menges, M., Freund, H.-J., Weide, D., Fischer, C., et al. (1992). Bimodal velocity distributions after ultraviolet-laser-induced desorption of NO from oxide surfaces. Experiments and results of model calculations. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 96(6), 7108-7116. doi:10.1063/1.462544.

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After UV‐laser‐induced desorption we observe bimodal velocity distributions independent of internal vibrational excitation [up to v=2 (4%)] applying resonance‐enhanced multiphoton ionization techniques. Both contributing desorption channels are of nonthermal origin. We introduce a model where the two desorption channels are correlated with the rupture of the molecule surface bond of the librating molecule either on the way toward or away from the surface. We have performed trajectory calculations to simulate the desorption processes. The calculated momentum distributions of the desorbing molecules show either one or two maxima, depending on lifetime, in agreement with experimental results. The vibrational distribution of the desorbing molecules can be reproduced by assuming transition into a state that is characterized by an altered N-O bond length as it is found, for example, in NO^-. The model calculations both for velocity distributions and vibrational excitations result in similar lifetimes of the excited state, even though the translational and the vibrational degree of freedom of the desorbing molecules are decoupled.