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Quantum state-resolved gas/surface reaction dynamics probed by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

We report the design and characterization of a new molecular-beam/surface-science apparatus for quantum state-resolved studies of gas/surface reaction dynamics combining optical state-specific reactant preparation in a molecular beam by rapid adiabatic pas ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Vibrationally bond-selected chemisorption of methane isotopologues on Pt(111) studied by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

Reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) was used to probe for vibrational bond-selectivity in the dissociative chemisorption of three partially deuterated methane isotopologues on a Pt(111) surface. While a combination of incident translational ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

The sticking probability of D2O-water on ice: Isotope effects and the inﬂuence of vibrational excitation

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Phil Morten Hundt

The present study measures the sticking probability of heavy water (D2O) on H2O- and on D2O-ice and probes the inﬂuence of selective OD-stretch excitation on D2O sticking on these ices. Molecular beam techniques are combined with infrared laser excitation ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Alignment dependent chemisorption of vibrationally excited CH4(3) on Ni(100), Ni(110), and Ni(111)

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Bruce Yoder, Phil Morten Hundt

We present a stereodynamics study of the dissociative chemisorption of vibrationally excited methane on the (100), (110), and (111) planes of a nickel single crystal surface. Using linearly polarized infrared excitation of the antisymmetric C–H stretch nor ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Steric Effects in the Chemisorption of Vibrationally Excited Methane on Ni(100)

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Bruce Yoder

Newly available, powerful infrared laser sources enable the preparation of intense molecular beams of quantum-state prepared and aligned molecules for gas/surface reaction dynamics experiments. We present a stereodynamics study of the chemisorption of vibr ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2010

Mode-specific reactivity of CH4 on Pt(110)-(1×2): The concerted role of stretch and bend excitation

Rainer Beck, Marco Sacchi, Régis Bisson

The state-resolved reaction probability of CH4 on Pt(110)-(1×2) was measured as a function of CH4 translational energy for four vibrational eigenstates comprising different amounts of C-H stretch and bend excitation. State-specific reactivity is observed b ...

American Physical Society2010

State-resolved reactivity of CH4 on Pt(110)-(1 x 2): The role of surface orientation and impact site

Rainer Beck, Marco Sacchi, Régis Bisson

The reactivity of methane (CH4) on Pt(110)-(1×2) has been studied by quantum state-resolved surface reactivity measurements. Ground state reaction probabilities, S0(v=0) ~ S0(laser-off), as well as state-resolved reaction probabilities S0(2v3), for CH4 exc ...

2010

Vibrational Activation in Direct and Precursor-Mediated Chemisorption of SiH4 on Si(100)

Rainer Beck, Thanh Tung Dang, Marco Sacchi, Régis Bisson

The quantum state-resolved reactivity S0 of SiH4 on Si(100)-2x1 has been measured for the first time for two vibrationally excited Si-H stretch local mode states (|2000> and |1100>) as well the ground state S0 as a function of translational energy En and s ...

2008

Comment on « Angular distributions of H-induced HD and D2 desorptions from the Si(100) surfaces » [J. Chem. Phys. 124, 054715 (2006)]

Régis Bisson

In their article, Inanaga et al. have presented an angular distribution for the desorption of hydrogen molecules induced by hydrogen atoms impinging on a hydrogenated Si(100) surface and compared the measurement with classical trajectory calculations based ...

2008

Cavity ring-down spectroscopy of jet-cooled silane isotopologues in the Si-H stretch overtone region

Rainer Beck, Thanh Tung Dang, Marco Sacchi, Régis Bisson

Absorption spectra of silane in the region of the first overtone of the Si-H stretch vibration have been recorded in a seeded supersonic jet expansion by cavity ring-down spectroscopy as well as in a static gas cell at room temperature by photoacoustic spe ...

2007

State-Resolved Reactivity of CH4(2ν3) on Pt(111) and Ni(111): Effects of Barrier Height and Transition State Location

Rainer Beck, Plinio Maroni, Thanh Tung Dang, Marco Sacchi, Régis Bisson, Bruce Yoder

Quantum state-resolved sticking coefficients on Pt(111) and Ni(111) surfaces have been measured for CH4 excited to the first overtone of the antisymmetric C-H stretch (2ν3) at well defined kinetic energies in the range of 10-90 kJ/mol. The ground state rea ...

2007