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(Sub)Surface Mobility of Oxygen Vacancies at the $\mathrmTiO_2$ Anatase (101) Surface

by: Philipp Scheiber, Martin Fidler, Olga Dulub, Michael Schmid, Ulrike Diebold, Weiyi Hou, Ulrich Aschauer, Annabella Selloni
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109 (Sep 2012), 136103, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.109.136103  Key: citeulike:11344398

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Anatase is a metastable polymorph of TiO2. In contrast to the more widely studied TiO2 rutile, O vacancies (VO’s) are not stable at the anatase (101) surface. Low-temperature STM shows that surface VO’s, created by electron bombardment at 105 K, start migrating to subsurface sites at temperatures ≥200  K. After an initial decrease of the VO density, a temperature-dependent dynamic equilibrium is established where VO’s move to subsurface sites and back again, as seen in time-lapse STM images. We estimate that activation energies for subsurface migration lie between 0.6 and 1.2 eV; in comparison, density functional theory calculations predict a barrier of ca. 0.75 eV. The wide scatter of the experimental values might be attributed to inhomogeneously distributed subsurface defects in the reduced sample.


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