A photoelectron diffraction study of the surface-V2O3 (2 × 2) layer on Pd(1 1 1)

M Sambi, M Petukhov, B Domenichini, G A Rizzi, Svetlozar L. Surnev, Georg Kresse, Falko P. Netzer, G Granozzi

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    Abstract

    X-ray photoelectron diffraction (XPD) has been applied to the study of the surface-(s)-V2O3 (2 × 2) layer on Pd(1 1 1), which is a novel interface-stabilised vanadium oxide phase with no bulk oxide counterpart. It has been detected by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) during the growth of ultrathin films of vanadium oxide on Pd(1 1 1). XPD confirms the general features of the model for s-V2O3/Pd(1 1 1), which has been proposed previously on the basis of STM measurements and ab initio density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations. In addition, quantitative agreement is found between the DFT model and the XPD experiment in the estimate of the average V-O interlayer spacing: the experimental result is 0.72 ‘ 0.07 Å, while the DFT-derived value is 0.723 Å. Œ 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)234-238
    Number of pages5
    JournalSurface Science
    Volume529
    Issue number1-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2003

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 1030 Physics, Astronomy

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