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Title: Nature of bonding of alkali metals to Si(111)
Author: Clotet, A.
Ricart, Josep M.
Rubio Martínez, Jaime
Illas i Riera, Francesc
Keywords: Química de superfícies
Metalls alcalins
Absorption
Surface chemistry
Alkali metals
Absorció
Issue Date: 1995
Publisher: The American Physical Society
Abstract: The nature of the chemisorption bond between alkali metals, Li to Cs, on the Si(l 11) surface has been studied by means of the ab initio Hartree-Fock cluster-model approach. A comparative and systematic study has been carried out for a variety of cluster models simulating the high-symmetry sites of this sur­face. In all cases we found the bond highly ionic with a small participation of covalent effects to the in­teraction energy, which ranges from ,:::,,20% for chemisorbed Li to less than 10% for Rb and Cs above the different active sites. This result is consistent with several analyses of the interaction focused on the interaction energy, the final Hartree-Fock wave function, the analysis of the dipole moment, and of its variation with the adsorbate-surface distance. We show that the dipole moment for chemisorbed alkali metals is smaller than the one expected from an ionic bond beca use of the substrate polarization. Conse­quently we argue that changes in the measured work function are not adequate to extract information about the ionicity of a given interaction. This is in agreement with previous works considering a metal substrate. Here we show that the same mechanism holds for semiconductor surfaces as well.
Note: Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.51.1581
It is part of: Physical Review B, 1995, vol. 51, núm. 3, p. 1581-1592
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/10856
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.51.1581
ISSN: 0163-1829
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