Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-05-23
Surface Science 370(2/3), 166 (1997)
Physics
Condensed Matter
23 pages, REVTEX, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0039-6028(96)00962-4
We report on a computational study of the clean and oxygen-covered Rh(110) surface, based on density-functional theory within the local-density approximation. We have used plane-wave basis sets and Vanderbilt ultra-soft pseudopotentials. For the clean surface, we present results for the equilibrium structure, surface energy, and surface stress of the unreconstructed and $(1\times 2)$ reconstructed structures. For the oxygen-covered surface we have performed a geometry optimization at $1\over 2$, 1, and 2 monolayer oxygen coverages, and we present results for the equilibrium configurations, workfunctions and oxygen chemisorption energies. At half monolayer coverage, we find that oxygen induces a $(1\times 2)$ reconstruction of the surface, while at one monolayer coverage the chemisorption energy is highest for the unreconstructed surface. Our results are rationalized by a simple tight-binding description of the interaction between the O$-2p$ orbitals and the metal valence states. The resulting bonds are stronger when established with low coordinated metal atoms, and give rise to an effective adsorbate-adsorbate interaction when two oxygen atoms are bound to the same metal orbital.
Baroni Stefano
Stokbro Kurt
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