WATER-ABSORPTION ON PERFECT CAF2(111) STUDIED WITH HE SCATTERING - EXPERIMENTAL-EVIDENCE FOR ORDERING OF NANOCLUSTERS

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LEHMANN, A
KONIG, G
RIEDER, KH
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[1] Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, D-14195 Berlin
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.3125
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O4 [物理学];
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Elastic and inelastic He-atom scattering were used to nondestructively investigate the water adsorption on UHV cleaved CaF2(111) surfaces. Below 145 K a p(4×4) adsorbate structure was observed. The corrugation function deduced from the diffraction intensities directly shows the formation of a two-dimensional periodic structure from water nanoclusters. Using the observed lateral extension and employing the Bernal-Fowler-Pauling rules, we arrive at six H2O molecules per cluster. This surprising result is confirmed by the observation of a very low energetic Einstein mode at ∼6 meV. © 1994 The American Physical Society.
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