Abstract
STM has been used to study the structural changes occurring during O2 chemisorption on Fe(110) and to correlate these with sticking and LEED measurements [A. Hodgson et al., Surf. Sci. 319 (1994) 119]. Oxygen forms and ordered c(2 × 2) phase with a coverage of 0.25 monolayer which at higher coverages is replaced by a disordered layer with local features having a (3 × 1) periodicity, aligned to the close packed directions. At O coverages above ∼ 0.25 monolayer the surface shows small single step height features on the O-rich areas of the surface, attributed to FeO. As the O coverage increases above 0.4 monolayer the size and density of the FeO islands increases, finally giving a hexagonal LEED pattern characteristic of FeO(111). The onset of FeO nucleation coincides with a minimum in the O2 sticking probability.
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