H. Kawano et al., ACTIVATION-ENERGIES FOR THE DESORPTION OF NEUTRAL MOLECULES AND POSITIVE-IONS FROM ALKALI-HALIDE LAYERS HEATED ON A METAL-SURFACE, Thermochimica acta, 299(1-2), 1997, pp. 59-65
To determine the activation energies (E+ and E-0) and the frequency fa
ctors (nu(+) and nu(0)) for thermal positive-ionic and neutral desorpt
ion from an ionic crystalline surface in high vacuum, a thin film (the
ta(0) approximate to 70-1400 molecular layers composed of 2.5-50 nmol)
of alkali halide (MX) deposited on a platinum plate (ca. 0.03 cm(2))
was heated up to ca. 1500 K at a constant rate (beta approximate to 2-
80 K s(-1)), and the absolute desorption rates of the ions (M+) and ne
utral molecules (MX0) were simultaneously measured by using our therma
l ionization type dual-ion source system operated by a temperature-pro
grammed desorption method. This system had so high a detection sensiti
vity thai even desorption rates of ca. 10(5) ions s(-1) and ca. 10(10)
molecules s(-1) were readily measured with reasonable accuracy. In ea
ch of the desorption spectra obtained with sodium halides, NaX0 and Na
+ showed single sharp peaks at low and high temperatures corresponding
to ca. 40% and < 0.4% of theta(0), respectively. Theoretical analysis
of the relation between beta and each desorption peak-appearance temp
erature (T-p approximate to 700-1300 K) furnished the following result
s; NaCl (E-0 = 193-176 and E+ = 290 kJ mol(-1); nu(0) = 10(10.7) and n
u(+) = 10(11.6)-10(12.3) s(-1)), NaBr (112 and 257; 10(6.7) and 10(11.
0)), NaI (139 and 234; 10(9.4) and 10(9.9)). RbCl, having two peaks of
Rb+ alone at adjacent (a) low, and (b) high temperatures, afforded th
e data; (154 and (a) 239, (b) 205; 10(9.9) and (a) 10(11.7), (b) 10(9.
1)), while LiCl with two peaks of both LiCl0 and Li+ yielded ((a) 145
and 291, (b) 277 and 234; (a) 10(9.6) and 10(12.6), (b) 10(11.7) and 1
0(9.0)), respectively. Physico-chemical analysis of these data supplie
d a substantial clue to the ionic and neutral desorption processes and
mechanisms.