Solution adsorption techniques, monolayer coverage

In contrast to the minimal activity in infrared reflection studies the technique of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) recently has contributed a large amount of information on monolayer adsorption of organic molecules on smooth metal oxide surfaces,Q),aluminum oxide layers on evaporated aluminum. These results indicate that a variety of organic molecules with acidic hydrogens, such as carboxylic acids and phenols chemisorb on aluminum Oxide overlayers by proton dissociation - 1 — and that monolayer coverage can be attained quite repro-ducibly by solution doping techniques. - The IETS technique is sensitive to both infrared and Raman modes. — However, almost no examples exist in which Raman il and or infrared spectra have been taken for an adsorbate/substrate system for which IETS spectra have been observed. 

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