Design and Performance Aspects of a Custom-Built Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectrometer toward Bridging the Pressure Gap: Oxidation of Cu, Ag, and Au Surfaces at 1 mbar O2 Pressure

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• 作者：Kanak Roy ; C. P. Vinod ; Chinnakonda S. Gopinath
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March 7, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：117
• 期：9
• 页码：4717-4726
• 全文大小：562K
• 年卷期：v.117,no.9(March 7, 2013)
• ISSN：1932-7455

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The critical features of a custom-built laboratory version ambient pressure photoelectron spectrometer (Lab-APPES) are presented. A double front cone differential pumping arrangement and an aperture free design employed in the electrostatic lens regime improve the data collection and data quality. In contrast to the conventional X-ray photoelectron spectrometers (XPS) operating at ultrahigh vacuum (UHV), it is possible to explore the electronic structure of solid surfaces under working conditions or closer to working conditions with Lab-APPES. Especially surface-dependent phenomena can be explored up to 1 mbar pressure and up to 873 K by conventional heating methods and at least up to 1273 K by a laser heating method. Simultaneous XPS and reaction kinetic measurements on solid surfaces make the Lab-APPES an important tool to measure the dynamic electronic structure changes on material surfaces under reaction conditions. The interaction of O<sub>2sub> with polycrystalline foils of Cu, Ag, and Au from UHV to 1 mbar and up to 773 K has been studied.