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The new high-temperature surface structure on reduced TiO2(001)
A Busiakiewicz1, Z Klusek, M Rogala
1Division of Physics and Technology of Nanometre Structures, Department of Solid State Physics, University of Lodz, 90-236 Lodz, Pomorska 149/153, Poland. adambus@std2.phys.uni.lodz.pl
Abstract:
Scanning tunnelling microscopy, ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and current imaging tunnelling spectroscopy (STM/UPS/CITS) were used to study the topographic and electronic structure of a high-temperature structure formed on the TiO(2)(001) surface after heating at 1173 K. The STM images revealed different domain-like ordering and periodicity on the surface in comparison to those observed previously. The UPS studies showed the presence of a surface state at energy about 1.1 eV below the Fermi level. This result was confirmed by the CITS data showing pronounced periodic maxima of the electron local density of states at energy around 1.1-1.2 eV below the Fermi level and located on top of every row of the new high-temperature structure. The CITS results recorded for small grains, which coexist with the observed structure, showed that their chemical composition is closer to the Ti(2)O(3) material than to TiO(2-x) for x << 1.
