Abstract
A comprehensive theoretical study is presented of the adsorption mechanism and energetics of the silyl (SiH3) radical on the Si(001)-(2×1) surface terminated by one monolayer of hydrogen atoms. SiH3 adsorbs on the surface dissociatively through an insertion reaction that involves breaking of the Si-Si surface dimer bond and subsequent transfer of an H atom from the radical to an atom of the broken dimer, thus leading to formation of two surface dihydride (SiH2) species. The structure and energies of the corresponding equilibrium and transition-state configurations are presented, as well as detailed energetics along the reaction pathway.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 304-310 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
| Volume | 329 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
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| State | Published - Oct 20 2000 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Universities Space Research Association Cooperative Agreement No. NCC 2-1006 (Award No. 8008-003-001-001), by the NSF/DoE Partnership for Basic Plasma Science and Engineering (Award No. DMR-9713280), and by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation through a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award to one of the authors (D.M.). Another author (S.P.W.) was supported by NASA Contract No. NAS2-14031 to ELORET.