LEED crystallographic analysis for the Rh(111)-(2 × 1)O surface structure

Abstract

A tensor LEED analysis is reported for the Rh(111)-(2 × 1)O surface structure in which atoms in the O overlayer chemisorb close to the regular (fcc type) three-fold hollow sites for half-monolayer coverage. The structure shows significant relaxations: for example, a buckling of about 0.07 Å is indicated in the first metal layer and O appears to displace laterally by about 0.05 Å. The individual ORh bond lengths are around 2.01 and 1.92 Å to top layer Rh atoms, which bond to two and one O atoms, respectively, but the average value (1.98 Å) is close to that in bulk RhO 2 (1.96 Å). Comparison is also made with the previously determined ORh bond lengths in the Rh(110)-p2mg(2 × 1) surface structure.