High-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy HREELS

As the table shows, a host of other teclmiques have contributed a dozen or fewer results each. It is seen that diffraction teclmiques have been very prominent in the field the major diffraction methods have been LEED, PD, SEXAFS, XSW, XRD, while others have contributed less, such as NEXAFS, RHEED, low-energy position diffraction (LEPD), high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), medium-energy electron diffraction (MEED), Auger electron diffraction (AED), SEELFS, TED and atom diffraction (AD). 

Analysis of Surface Molecular Composition. Information about the molecular composition of the surface or interface may also be of interest. A variety of methods for elucidating the nature of the molecules that exist on a surface or within an interface exist. Techniques based on vibrational spectroscopy of molecules are the most common and include the electron-based method of high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (hreels), and the optical methods of ftir and Raman spectroscopy. These tools are tremendously powerful methods of analysis because not only does a molecule possess vibrational modes which are signatures of that molecule, but the energies of molecular vibrations are extremely sensitive to the chemical environment in which a molecule is found. Thus, these methods direcdy provide information about the chemistry of the surface or interface through the vibrations of molecules contained on the surface or within the interface. 

High-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS) 1.8.3... 

Another spectroscopic technique, high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), has been used by Wagner and Moylan211 in combination with cyclic voltammetry to estimate ffs0of a Pt(lll) electrode from the reaction of H30+ formation. 

Hartree-Fock wave functions, 269 High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy, HREELS, 43, 69 Highest occupied molecular orbital, HOMO, 269... 

Figure 8.14 High-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and low-energy electron diffraction of CO adsorbed on a Rh(l 11) surface, along with structure models. The HREELS spectra show the C-O and metal-CO stretch vibrations of linear and threefold CO on rhodium (from R.Linke etal. [56]).

The experiments were performed in stainless steel UHV chambers which were equipped with the instrumentation necessary to perform Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), UV Photoelectron Spectroscopy (UPS), Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED), work function measurements (A( )), High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS), and Temperature Programmed Desorption (TPD). The Au(lll) crystal was heated resist vely and cooled by direct contact of the crystal mounting block with a liquid nitrogen reservoir. The temperature of the Au(lll) crystal was monitored directly by means of a... 

In order to elucidate the results of the CO TPD experiment, the detailed structure of the oxygen-modified Mo(l 12) surfaces and the adsorption sites of CO on these surfaces have been considered. Zaera et al. (14) investigated the CO adsorption on the Mo(l 10) surface by high-resolution electron-energy-loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and found vatop sites. Francy et al. (75) also found a 2100 cm loss for CO on W(IOO) and assigned it to atop CO. Recently, He et al. (16) indicated by infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy that at low exposures CO is likely bound to the substrate with the C-0 axis tilted with respect to the surface normal. They, however, have also shown that CO molecules adsorbed on O-modified Mo(l 10) exhibi Vc-o 2062 and 1983 cm L characteristic to CO adsorbed on atop sites. Thus it is supposed that CO adsorbs on top of the first layer Mo atoms. 

Welipitiya etal. [132] have studied adsorption and desorption of ferrocene on Ag(lOO), applying photoemission and thermal desorption. The initially adsorbed surface species closely resembled that of molecular ferrocene. The molecule was adsorbed with the cyclopentadienyl ring ligands parallel to the surface. Wood-bridge etal. [133] have performed the high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) andXPS studies of ferrocene on Ag(lOO). Researchers from the... 

The same system, i.e., C2H2 on Pt(l 11) has also been studied by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), by high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), and by thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS). The authors have all... 

In this paper, we will report the electronic and catalytic reactivities of the model VC/V(110) surface, and our attempt to extend them to VC powder catalysts. By using high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and NEXAFS techniques, we observed that the surface properties of V(110) could be significantly modified by the formation of vanadium carbide some of the experimental results on these model surfaces were published previously.3-5 We will discuss the selective activation of the C-H bond of isobutane and the C=C bond of isobutene on V(110) and on VC/V(110) model systems. These results will be compared to the catalytic performances of vanadium and vanadium carbide powder materials in the dehydrogenation of isobutane. 

A versatile tool to analyze vibrations of surface atoms and adsorbed molecules is high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) [359], Monoenergetic low-energy electrons (1-10 eV) are directed to the surface. Most of them are backscattered elastically. 

In the case of chemisorption of acetylene on Pd(lll), high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) data suggest that ethylidyne coexists with vinylidene ( =C=CH2) at this surface (31). In their ultra-... 

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