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Disparate Effects of Cu and V on Structures of Exohedral Transition Metal-Doped Silicon Clusters: A Combined Far-Infrared Spectroscopic and Computational Study

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Gruene,  Philipp
Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Fielicke,  André
Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Ngan, V. T., Gruene, P., Claes, P., Janssens, E., Fielicke, A., Nguyen, M. T., et al. (2010). Disparate Effects of Cu and V on Structures of Exohedral Transition Metal-Doped Silicon Clusters: A Combined Far-Infrared Spectroscopic and Computational Study. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(44), 15589-15602. doi:10.1021/ja105099u.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-2581-A
Abstract
The growth mechanisms of small cationic silicon clusters containing up to 11 Si atoms, exohedrally doped by V and Cu atoms, are described. We find that as dopants, V and Cu follow two different paths: while V prefers substitution of a silicon atom in a highly coordinated position of the cationic bare silicon clusters, Cu favors adsorption to the neutral or cationic bare clusters in a lower coordination site. The different behavior of the two transition metals becomes evident in the structures of SinM+ (n = 4−11 for M = V, and n = 6−11 for M = Cu), which are investigated by density functional theory and, for several sizes, confirmed by comparison with their experimental vibrational spectra. The spectra are measured on the corresponding SinM+·Ar complexes, which can be formed for the exohedrally doped silicon clusters. The comparison between experimental and calculated spectra indicates that the BP86 functional is suitable to predict far-infrared spectra of these clusters. In most cases, the calculated infrared spectrum of the lowest-lying isomer fits well with the experiment, even when various isomers and different electronic states are close in energy. However, in a few cases, namely Si9Cu+, Si11Cu+, and Si10V+, the experimentally verified isomers are not the lowest in energy according to the density functional theory calculations, but their structures still follow the described growth mechanism. The different growth patterns of the two series of doped Si clusters reflect the role of the transition metal’s 3d orbitals in the binding of the dopant atoms.