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Title: Insight into the Phase Transformation Pathways of Copper Oxidation: From Oxygen Chemisorption on the Clean Surface to Multilayer Bulk Oxide Growth

Abstract

Here, we have employed ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to monitor the full pathway of copper oxidation from the initial stages of oxygen chemisorption on the clean surface to oxide nucleation and growth and then to growing continuous oxide layer. By increasing oxygen pressure in a stepwise way from pO2 = 10–7 to 1 Torr at T = 350 °C, we show that the oxidation of Cu(100) takes place by dissociative chemisorption of oxygen to first form the p(2 × 2) phase at pO2 = 1 × 10–7 Torr, which then transforms to the missing-row reconstruction with a higher oxygen coverage and upon increasing pO2 from 1 × 10–6 to 1 × 10–3 Torr. After reaching pO2 = 1 × 10–2 Torr, nucleation and growth of Cu2O islands occurs by consuming the regions. Increasing pO2 to 0.1 Torr results in the continued Cu2O growth with increased surface roughness. The surface is quickly covered with a CuO layer upon increasing pO2 to 1 Torr, at which the surface oxidation occurs via the CuO/Cu2O bilayer growth. The measurements delineate the range of pO2 required for the crossover between the different stages of the surface oxidation and may have practical importance by tuning themore » oxidation conditions that allow for controlling the oxide phase and atomic structure of the surface.« less

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  1. State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY (United States)
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1489350
Report Number(s):
BNL-210831-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 46; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Wang, Jianyu, Li, Chaoran, Zhu, Yaguang, Boscoboinik, Jorge Anibal, and Zhou, Guangwen. Insight into the Phase Transformation Pathways of Copper Oxidation: From Oxygen Chemisorption on the Clean Surface to Multilayer Bulk Oxide Growth. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09145.
Wang, Jianyu, Li, Chaoran, Zhu, Yaguang, Boscoboinik, Jorge Anibal, & Zhou, Guangwen. Insight into the Phase Transformation Pathways of Copper Oxidation: From Oxygen Chemisorption on the Clean Surface to Multilayer Bulk Oxide Growth. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09145
Wang, Jianyu, Li, Chaoran, Zhu, Yaguang, Boscoboinik, Jorge Anibal, and Zhou, Guangwen. Wed . "Insight into the Phase Transformation Pathways of Copper Oxidation: From Oxygen Chemisorption on the Clean Surface to Multilayer Bulk Oxide Growth". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09145. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1489350.
@article{osti_1489350,
title = {Insight into the Phase Transformation Pathways of Copper Oxidation: From Oxygen Chemisorption on the Clean Surface to Multilayer Bulk Oxide Growth},
author = {Wang, Jianyu and Li, Chaoran and Zhu, Yaguang and Boscoboinik, Jorge Anibal and Zhou, Guangwen},
abstractNote = {Here, we have employed ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to monitor the full pathway of copper oxidation from the initial stages of oxygen chemisorption on the clean surface to oxide nucleation and growth and then to growing continuous oxide layer. By increasing oxygen pressure in a stepwise way from pO2 = 10–7 to 1 Torr at T = 350 °C, we show that the oxidation of Cu(100) takes place by dissociative chemisorption of oxygen to first form the p(2 × 2) phase at pO2 = 1 × 10–7 Torr, which then transforms to the missing-row reconstruction with a higher oxygen coverage and upon increasing pO2 from 1 × 10–6 to 1 × 10–3 Torr. After reaching pO2 = 1 × 10–2 Torr, nucleation and growth of Cu2O islands occurs by consuming the regions. Increasing pO2 to 0.1 Torr results in the continued Cu2O growth with increased surface roughness. The surface is quickly covered with a CuO layer upon increasing pO2 to 1 Torr, at which the surface oxidation occurs via the CuO/Cu2O bilayer growth. The measurements delineate the range of pO2 required for the crossover between the different stages of the surface oxidation and may have practical importance by tuning the oxidation conditions that allow for controlling the oxide phase and atomic structure of the surface.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09145},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. C},
number = 46,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Changes in Cu 2p3/2 (a), (b) Cu L3M45M45, and O 1s (c) while exposing a clean Cu(100) surface at 350°C to O2 with stepwise increase of pO2 from pO2=1 x 10-7 to 1 Torr.

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