High-energy ion scattering has been used to study the clean Mo(100) re
construction and the modifications caused by hydrogen adsorption. The
results indicate that at room temperature the clean surface is disorde
red and that the atomic displacements are comparable to those at low t
emperature. The experiments also show that the surface-atom displaceme
nts at any fixed coverage in the hydrogen phases are approximately ind
ependent of temperature between 10 and 300 K.