Hydrogen atom collisions with a semiconductor efficiently promote electrons to the conduction band.
Hydrogen atom collisions with a semiconductor efficiently promote electrons to the conduction band.
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10.1038/s41557-022-01085-x
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2023-03
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21.8
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The Born–Oppenheimer approximation is the keystone of modern computational chemistry and there is wide interest in understanding under what conditions it remains valid. Hydrogen atom scattering from insulator, semi-metal and metal surfaces has helped provide such information. The approximation is adequate for insulators and for metals it fails, but not severely. Here we present hydrogen atom scattering from a semiconductor surface: Ge(111)c(2 × 8). Experiments show bimodal energy-loss distributions revealing two channels. Molecular dynamics trajectories within the Born–Oppenheimer approximation reproduce one channel quantitatively. The second channel transfers much more energy and is absent in simulations. It grows with hydrogen atom incidence energy and exhibits an energy-loss onset equal to the Ge surface bandgap. This leads us to conclude that hydrogen atom collisions at the surface of a semiconductor are capable of promoting electrons from the valence to the conduction band with high efficiency. Our current understanding fails to explain these observations. Inelastic hydrogen atom scattering from surfaces provides a good benchmark for the validity of the Born–Oppenheimer approximation in surface chemistry. Now it has been shown that hydrogen atoms colliding with a semiconductor surface can efficiently excite electrons above the surface bandgap, representing a clear example of the failure of the approximation.
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpca.1c00361
发表时间:
2021-04-22
期刊:
The journal of physical chemistry. A
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作者:
Bünermann O;Kandratsenka A;Wodtke AM
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Wodtke AM
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Kresse, G;Furthmuller, J
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Furthmuller, J
影响因子:
8.6
作者:
LI, YG;WAHNSTROM, G
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WAHNSTROM, G
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
PUSKA, MJ;NIEMINEN, RM
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NIEMINEN, RM
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
Buenermann, Oliver;Jiang, Hongyan;Wodtke, Alec M.
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Wodtke, Alec M.