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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Role of surface temperature in the precursor-mediated dissociative chemisorption of N2 on W(100)
Abstract
Molecular-beam techniques have been used to probe the dynamical origin of the surface-temperature (Ts) dependence of the precursor-mediated dissociative chemisorption of N2 on W(100). Measurements of the angular and velocity distributions of scattered molecules have revealed that increasing Ts primarily serves to reduce the fraction of precursor molecules that go on to dissociate, by biasing the kinetics in favor of desorption. In contrast, the trapping probability into the precursor state is found to be relatively insensitive to this parameter, accounting for 20% of the observed effects. © 1988 The American Physical Society.