Reaction at the Outermost Surface Selectively Induced by Metastable-Atom Beams
Reaction at the Outermost Surface Selectively Induced by Metastable-Atom Beams
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亚稳态原子束选择性诱导最外表面反应
DOI:
10.1143/jjap.39.4126
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
Y. Harada
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作者:
H. Yasufuku;Kazuyuki Meguro;K. Okudaira;N. Ueno;Y. Harada
This paper reports the first spectroscopic observation of changes in surface electronic states that originate from a chemical reaction at the outermost surface which is selectively induced by the impact of slow metastable atoms. Using metastable-atom electron spectroscopy, structural changes of titanyl phthalocyanine (OTiPc) molecules as a result of the impact of slow He*(23S) were observed for an oriented OTiPc monolayer on a graphite substrate where the molecule is oriented flat with the oxygen atom protruding outside the surface. Unlike photons and electrons, metastable atoms do not penetrate into the bulk of solids. Therefore, they interact only with electrons distributed at the outermost surface of the film, and excite these electrons selectively. The observed spectral change in metastable-atom electron spectrum indicates that the surface reaction can be realized by the selective ionization of the outermost surface with the impact of slow metastable atoms.