Abstract
The adsorption of H2O on the oxygen-terminated polar surface of ZnO, ZnO(000-1), has been studied by He atom scattering (HAS), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), adsorption probability measurements, He atom reflectivity measurements as a function of exposure and surface temperature (He atom thermal desorption measurements, “He-TDS”), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The clean O−ZnO(000-1) surface is characterized by an ordered (1 × 3) oxygen vacancy structure which converts to a (1 × 1) hydrogen (OH)-terminated structure upon dissociative H2O adsorption, even at adsorption temperatures as low as TS = 200 K. The formation of the OH-species is accompanied by the formation of a shoulder in the XPS O 1s line. A detailed investigation of the coverage dependence of the H2O adsorption probability indicates the presence of a distinct precursor state. The initial trapping probability is S0 = 0.8 ± 0.1. The most probable microscopic adsorption mechanism which is consistent with the obtained data is ...
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