Electron localization and solvation in two dimensions

Charles B. Harris; Paul Szymanski; Sean Garrett-Roe; Andre D. Miller; Kelly J. Gaffney; Simon H. Liu; Ilya Bezel

doi:10.1117/12.504849

4 December 2003 Electron localization and solvation in two dimensions

Charles B. Harris, Paul Szymanski, Sean Garrett-Roe, Andre D. Miller, Kelly J. Gaffney, Simon H. Liu, Ilya Bezel

Proceedings Volume 5223, Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504849
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Two-photon photoemission of thiolate/Ag(111), nitrile/Ag(111), and alcohol/Ag(111) interfaces elucidates electron solvation and localization in two dimensions. For low coverages of thiolates on Ag(111), the occupied (HOMO) and unoccupied (LUMO) electronic states of the sulfer-silver bond are localized due to the lattice gas structure of the adsorbate. As the coverage saturates and the adsorbate-adsorbate nearest neighbor distance decreases, the HOMO and LUMO delocalize across many adsorbate molecules. Alcohol- and nitrile-covered Ag(111) surfaces solvate excess image potential state (IPS) electrons. In the case of alcohol-covered surfaces, this solvation is due to a shift in the local workfunction of the surface. For two-monolayer coverages of nitriles/Ag(111), localization accompanies solvation of the IPS. The size of the localized electron can be estimated by Fourier transformation of the wavefunction from momentum- to position-space. The IPS electron localizes to 15 ± 4 angstroms full-width at half maximum in the plane of the surface, i.e., to a single lattice site.

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Charles B. Harris, Paul Szymanski, Sean Garrett-Roe, Andre D. Miller, Kelly J. Gaffney, Simon H. Liu, and Ilya Bezel "Electron localization and solvation in two dimensions", Proc. SPIE 5223, Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials II, (4 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504849

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