Abstract

Exposing a layer of ethanethiol adsorbed on Au(111) to a hyperthermal beam of Xe colliders with translational energies from 1.6 to 5.8 eV, three collision-induced processes can be studied: (1) the collision-induced desorption (CID) of physisorbed ethanethiol, (2) the CID of chemisorbed ethanethiol, and (3) the collision-induced conversion of the physisorbed molecules to the chemisorbed state. We employ He atomic beam reflectivity in order to detect adsorbate coverages and their evolution in the low coverage regime. Combining this method with temperature-programmed desorption spectroscopy (TPD) we are able to independently determine cross sections and threshold energies for all three processes and compare those to the activation energies of the corresponding thermal processes. Large differences for both the cross sections and the ratios of threshold (Eth) and activation energies (Ea) are found. The ratio of the threshold energy (Eth,c) for CID and the desorption activation energy (Ea,c) for the chemisorbe...

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