ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Photolysis of HCl adsorbed on LiF(001) was studied by means of hydrogen Rydberg-atom time-of-flight (HRTOF) spectroscopy. Experiments were performed using 193.3 nm excimer laser radiation or 121.6 nm tripled dye-laser radiation for photolysis. The H-atom translational energy distributions using 193.3 nm (6.41 eV) radiation showed three main features: a high-energy channel corresponding to elastically scattered H atoms (EL) peaked at 1.85 and 1.65 eV (leaving behind Cl and Cl*, respectively); a second channel ∼1.2 eV lower in energy resulting from surface-aligned inelastic collisions (INEL, peaking at 0.6 eV); and a thermalized channel thought to be the product of multiple collisions and trapping of the scattered H. For 121.6 nm (10.2 eV) photolysis, the H-atom translational energy distributions showed four features: EL, with a maximum at 5.5 eV (the Cl and Cl* channels could not be separated at this high recoil energy); INEL(1), peaking at 3.2 eV; a more complex inelastic pathway, INEL(2), with a maximum at 0.5 eV; and, finally, a thermalized channel. Angular distributions for the elastically scattered H atoms indicated that they scattered from F− in the underlying LiF(001) at 40 and 48° off-normal for photodissociation of HCl(ad) at 193.3 and 121.6 nm, respectively. These two angles are far from 71°, the angle that would be observed from specular scattering of the H atom from the surface plane; this is strong evidence for the localized atomic scattering (LAS) identified in earlier studies performed in this laboratory. It appears that the higher the energy of the H projectile, the deeper it penetrates into the impacted surface atom, giving rise to the larger scattering angle. As in previous work, an exchange reaction was invoked to explain the ∼1.2 eV energy loss in the INEL(1) channel, together with observed retention of direction in H following this strongly inelastic encounter. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.478117
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