Chemisorption of a single oxygen molecule on the Si(100) surface: Initial oxidation mechanisms

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作者
Kato, K
Uda, T
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[1] Toshiba Corp, Ctr Corp Res & Dev, Adv Mat & Devices Lab, Saiwai Ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 2108582, Japan
[2] Angstrom Techno Partnership, Joint Res Ctr Atom Technol, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050046, Japan
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2000年 / 62卷 / 23期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.62.15978
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Chemisorption of an O-2 molecule from the topmost layer to deeper subsurface layers on the Si(100) surface is studied by employing the spin-polarized generalized-gradient approximation. The calculated results reveal that an O-2 molecule is weakly adsorbed on a clean Si(100)-surface with an initial spin-tripler state, but is adiabatically chemisorbed with a spin-state conversion, when an O-2 molecule arrives at the surface with a low incident energy. Barrierless back-bond oxidation has been found to occur through dissociative chemisorption with a spin-orbit interaction followed by O-atom migration to back-bond centers. According to the depth from the surface, energy barriers are found to be increasingly necessary for chemisorption of an O-2 molecule in subsurface layers.
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页码:15978 / 15988
页数:11
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