Chemisorption states of ionic lattices

SURFACE

SCIENCE

13 (1969)

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CHEMISORPTION PETER Department

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North-Holland

STATES MARK

and THOMAS

Amsterdam

A. GOODWIN

Princeton New Jersey 08540, U.S.A.

Received

Co.,

OF IONIC LATTICES

ofElectrical Engineering, Princeton,

Publishing

Unirersity,

26 July 1968

A method for computing the chemisorption states of ionic lattices is presented in which the dominant interaction between the adsorbent and the adsorbate is a Madelung-type potential. The results describe quite well the chemisorption of oxygen on stable surfaces of ZnO and CdS. The same technique is used to establish a criterion for the stability of ionic surfaces. For the complete exposition, see J. Phys. Chem. Solids 29 (1968) 689.

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