Experimental evidence for a partially dissociated water bilayer on Ru{0001}Weissenrieder, J., Mikkelsen, A., Andersen, J., Feibelman, P. and Held, G. (2004) Experimental evidence for a partially dissociated water bilayer on Ru{0001}. Physical Review Letters, 93 (19). 19610. ISSN 0031-9007
It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.196102 Abstract/SummaryCore-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(root3xroot3)R30degrees adlayer, even though approximate to3/8 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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