Comparative study of oxidation on Cu and CuAu surfaces with a hyperthermal O molecular beam

Okada, Michio*; Moritani, Kosuke; Fukuyama, Tetsuya*; Mizutani, Hironori*; Yoshigoe, Akitaka; Teraoka, Yuden; Kasai, Toshio*

Surface Science, 600(18), p.4228 - 4232, 2006/09

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2006.01.149

Dissociative adsorption of hyperthermal O molecules on CuAu(100) was investigated by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy in conjunction with a synchrotron light source. Comparing the O-uptake curve on CuAu with that on Cu, it was found that the dissociative adsorption of O is more activated (less reactive) due to Au alloying. The low-energy electron-diffraction (LEED) pattern of c(22) for the clean surface turned into the (11) LEED pattern during the oxidation by hyperthermal O molecular beam, suggesting that the O adsorption induces the Cu-atom segregation on the surface.