Surface Studies by Optical Second-Harmonic Generation: The Adsorption of <span class="aps-inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span>, CO, and Sodium on the Rh(111) Surface

H. W. K. Tom; C. M. Mate; X. D. Zhu; J. E. Crowell; T. F. Heinz; G. A. Somorjai; Y. R. Shen

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.348

Surface Studies by Optical Second-Harmonic Generation: The Adsorption of $O_{2}$ , CO, and Sodium on the Rh(111) Surface

H. W. K. Tom, C. M. Mate, X. D. Zhu, J. E. Crowell, T. F. Heinz, G. A. Somorjai, and Y. R. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 348 – Published 30 January 1984

Abstract

Optical second-harmonic generation is used to study the adsorption of atomic and diatomic species on a well characterized Rh(111) crystal surface in ultrahigh vacuum. The results correlate well with those obtained by other surface probes.

Received 26 October 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.348

Authors & Affiliations

H. W. K. Tom^*, C. M. Mate^*, X. D. Zhu^*, J. E. Crowell^†, T. F. Heinz^*,‡, G. A. Somorjai^†, and Y. R. Shen^*

Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

^*Also associated with the Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal. 94720.
^†Also associated with the Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal. 94720.
^‡Permanent address: IBM Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598.