AVS 47th International Symposium
    Surface Science Friday Sessions
       Session SS+MC-FrM

Paper SS+MC-FrM7
STM Studies of Pyrrole-sdsorbed Si(111)-7*7 Surfaces

Friday, October 6, 2000, 10:20 am, Room 209

Session: Characterization of Oxides and Thin Films
Presenter: Z.L. Yuan, National University of Singapore
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The Si(111)-7*7 surfaces is particularly appropriate in Si surface chemistry, because it contains dangling bonds on several different sites within the surface unit cell, and also STM has been used to provide direct and local information on an atomic scale.@footnote 1@ In the present work, the topographic and spectroscopic analysis of pyrrole adsorption on Si(111)-7*7 surfaces at room temperature under different pyrrole exposures is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). No significant changes in the surface reconstruction are observed, some adatoms become dark, however this is not due to the vacancies of Si adatoms, because these adatom are visible under the higher sample bias, the disappearance of adatoms is the result of changes in electronic structure upon reaction with pyrrole. the preservation of the 7*7 reconstruction suggests that the reaction with pyrrole has primarily saturated existing dangling bonds on Si(111)-7*7 surfaces. The adsorption is site selective, the faulted center adatoms are most favored for adsorption among the adatoms. The rest atoms also react with pyrrole from STS observation. Based on our STM/STS and HREELS data, a possible adsorption mechanism of pyrrole chemsorption on Si(111)-7*7 surfaces is also discussed. @FootnoteText@ @footnote 1@R. Wolkow and Ph Avouris, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1988, 60:1049; Phys. Rev. B,1989, 39:5091; J. Yoshinobu et al, Phys. Rev. B 1992, 46:9520; Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 1993, 32:1171; M. N. Piancastelli et al, Phy. Rev. B 1993, 48:17892,R. A. Wolkow, Annau. Rev. Phys. Chem. 1999, 50:413.