| Literature DB >> 12481022 |
Renald Schaub1, Erik Wahlström, Anders Rønnau, Erik Lagsgaard, Ivan Stensgaard, Flemming Besenbacher.
Abstract
Defects such as oxygen vacancies play a crucial role in the surface properties of transition metal oxides. By means of time-resolved, high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy, we unraveled an adsorbate-mediated diffusion mechanism of oxygen vacancies on rutile TiO2(110). Adsorbed oxygen molecules mediate vacancy diffusion through the loss of an oxygen atom to a vacancy and the sequential capture of an oxygen atom from a neighboring bridging oxygen row, leading to an anisotropic oxygen vacancy diffusion pathway perpendicular to the bridging oxygen rows.Entities:
Year: 2002 PMID: 12481022 DOI: 10.1126/science.1078962
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728