Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.193409
Keywords
adsorption; infrared spectra; organic compounds; rhodium; soft modes
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
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The C-H stretching vibrations of cyclohexane on Rh(111) were investigated using infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy between 20 and 89 K. At 20 K, the softened C-H stretching band consists of several sharp peaks, ranging from 2500 to 2700 cm(-1). The wide-range distribution of the softened C-H stretching peaks results from inhomogeneity of adsorption environments. With increasing the substrate temperature, each softened C-H stretching peak becomes significantly broadened, but the normal C-H stretching peaks are little changed. These results indicate that the local interaction between the softened C-H species and the Rh(111) surface is sensitive to a thermally excited low-energy mode. The temperature-dependent broadening of a soft mode at low temperature is analyzed using a vibrational dephasing model, where the softened C-H stretching mode is anharmonically coupled with a thermally excited frustrated translation mode.
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