Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)

Density functional theory is used to describe the reactions of chemisorption of pyridine on the silicon (0 0 1) surface. Adsorption energies of six relevant structures, and the activation energies between them are reported. We consider in detail the dative to tight-bridge transition for which confli...

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Main Authors: Bennett, J., Marks, Nigel, Miwa, J., Lopinski, G., Rosei, F., McKenzie, D., Warschkow, O.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15476
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author Bennett, J.
Marks, Nigel
Miwa, J.
Lopinski, G.
Rosei, F.
McKenzie, D.
Warschkow, O.
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Marks, Nigel
Miwa, J.
Lopinski, G.
Rosei, F.
McKenzie, D.
Warschkow, O.
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description Density functional theory is used to describe the reactions of chemisorption of pyridine on the silicon (0 0 1) surface. Adsorption energies of six relevant structures, and the activation energies between them are reported. We consider in detail the dative to tight-bridge transition for which conflicting results have been reported in the literature, and provide a description of the formation of inter-row chains observed in high-coverage experiments. We demonstrate that the choice of DFT functional has a considerable effect on the relative energetics and of the four DFT functionals considered, we find that the range-separated hybrid ωB97X-D functional with empirical dispersion provides the most consistent description of the experiment data.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-154762017-09-13T13:41:03Z Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1) Bennett, J. Marks, Nigel Miwa, J. Lopinski, G. Rosei, F. McKenzie, D. Warschkow, O. Density functional theory is used to describe the reactions of chemisorption of pyridine on the silicon (0 0 1) surface. Adsorption energies of six relevant structures, and the activation energies between them are reported. We consider in detail the dative to tight-bridge transition for which conflicting results have been reported in the literature, and provide a description of the formation of inter-row chains observed in high-coverage experiments. We demonstrate that the choice of DFT functional has a considerable effect on the relative energetics and of the four DFT functionals considered, we find that the range-separated hybrid ωB97X-D functional with empirical dispersion provides the most consistent description of the experiment data. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15476 10.1088/0953-8984/27/5/054001 Institute of Physics Publishing restricted
spellingShingle Bennett, J.
Marks, Nigel
Miwa, J.
Lopinski, G.
Rosei, F.
McKenzie, D.
Warschkow, O.
Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)
title Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)
title_full Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)
title_fullStr Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)
title_full_unstemmed Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)
title_short Reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)
title_sort reaction pathways for pyridine adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15476