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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 114, Issue 49, Pages 21510-21515Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp107262b
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-98CH1-886]
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Imaging Initiative [FWP CO-023]
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The mechanism of hydrogen desorption from rutile TiO2(110)-(1 x 1) was studied by injecting electrons with controlled energy and flux into single surface hydroxyls (OH) in cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Desorption proceeds without a clear threshold already at much lower energies than reported previously.(1) Our analysis identifies a transfer of H atoms from the TiO2 surface to the STM tip, triggered by vibrational heating due to inelastic electron tunneling, as the desorption mechanism. The reversible H-atom transfer between sample and tip can be used as a tool to discriminate OH from other surface species on TiO2 and to control the density and configuration of OH by selective removal and redeposition of H atoms on the oxide surface.
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