The dynamics of dissociative chemisorption of H2 on a Si (111) surface

BM Rice, I NoorBatcha, DL Thompson…�- The Journal of chemical�…, 1987 - pubs.aip.org
The dissociative chemisorption and scattering ofH2 on an unreconstructed Si (111) surface
has been investigated using classical trajectories on a potential-energy surface previously
used to study H2 recombination/desorption from Si (111)[J. Chern. Phys. 85, 3081 (1986)].
The results show H2 scattering from Si (111) to be elastic and predominately specular. The
scattered translational energy distributions are broadened but there is virtually no change in
the average values. There is very little energy transfer to or from the internal H2 modes�…