Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-21-2018
Abstract
We report on atom-specific activation of CO oxidation on Ru(0001) via resonant X-ray excitation. We show that resonant 1s core-level excitation of atomically adsorbed oxygen in the co-adsorbed phase of CO and oxygen directly drives CO oxidation. We separate this direct resonant channel from indirectly driven oxidation via X-ray induced substrate heating. Based on density functional theory calculations, we identify the valence-excited state created by the Auger decay as the driving electronic state for direct CO oxidation. We utilized the fresh-slice multi-pulse mode at the Linac Coherent Light Source that provided time-overlapped and 30 fs delayed pairs of soft X-ray pulses and discuss the prospects of femtosecond X-ray pump X-ray spectroscopy probe, as well as X-ray two-pulse correlation measurements for fundamental investigations of chemical reactions via selective X-ray excitation.
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S. Shreck, E. Diesen, J. LaRue, H. Ogasawara, K. Marks, D. Nordlund, M. Weston, M. Beye, F. Cavalca, F. Perakis, J. Sellberg, A. Eilert, K. H. Kim, G. Coslovich, R. Coffee, J. Krzywinski, A. Reid, S. Moeller, A. Lutman, H. Öström, L. G. M. Pettersson, and A. Nilsson, J. Chem. Phys. 347, 149, 234707 (2018).
doi: 10.1063/1.5044579
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This article was originally published in Journal of Chemical Physics, volume 347, in 2018. DOI: 10.1063/1.5044579