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Introduction to Ultrathin Silica Films Introduction to Ultrathin Silica Films Silicatene and Others Shamil Shaikhutdinov March9,2022 14:39 JSPBook-9inx6in 00-Shaikhutdinov-Prelims Published by JennyStanfordPublishingPte.Ltd. 101ThomsonRoad #06-01,UnitedSquare Singapore307591 Email:[email protected] Web:www.jennystanford.com British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Introduction to Ultrathin Silica Films: Silicatene and Others Copyright ©c 2022JennyStanfordPublishingPte.Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not requiredfromthepublisher. ISBN978-981-4877-28-2(Hardcover) ISBN978-1-003-08862-2(eBook) March9,2022 14:39 JSPBook-9inx6in 00-Shaikhutdinov-Prelims To my parents, to my family, to my friends. March9,2022 14:39 JSPBook-9inx6in 00-Shaikhutdinov-Prelims Contents Preface xi 1 Silica and Silicates 1 1.1 SilicaPolymorphs 2 1.2 SilicaGlasses 6 1.3 SheetSilicates 10 1.4 FrameworkAluminosilicates:Zeolites 13 1.5 ElectronicStructuresofSilica 15 1.6 SurfaceStructures 18 2 Preparation of Thin Oxide Films: Concepts and Toolkits 31 2.1 ExperimentalToolsforThin-FilmCharacterization 32 2.2 Low-EnergyElectronDiffraction 35 2.3 X-RayPhotoelectronSpectroscopy,AugerElectron Spectroscopy 36 2.4 InfraredReﬂectionAbsorptionSpectroscopy) 44 2.5 High-ResolutionElectronEnergyLossSpectroscopy 48 2.6 ScanningTunnelingMicroscopy 51 2.7 ElectronMicroscopy 55 2.8 FilmGrowth:GeneralConsiderations 57 2.9 DepositionMethods 61 3 Thin Silica Films on Si and SiC 69 3.1 ThermalOxidationofSiSurfaces 69 3.2 ThinSilicaFilmsonSiC 81 3.3 ChemicalDepositionofThinSilicaFilmsonSi Substrates 94 March9,2022 14:39 JSPBook-9inx6in 00-Shaikhutdinov-Prelims viii Contents 4 Ultrathin Silica Films on Metals 107 4.1 Molybdenum 108 4.2 3d-TransitionMetals:Nickel,Iron,Cobalt 127 4.3 Ruthenium 132 4.3.1 MonolayerFilms 133 4.3.2 BilayerFilms 136 4.3.3 “Zigzag”Films 141 4.4 Platinum 145 4.5 Palladium 147 4.5.1 MetalSubstrateEffects:GeneralTrend 154 4.5.2 TowardsaLayer-by-LayerGrowthMode 159 5 Defects in Ultrathin Silica Films on Metals 167 5.1 DefectsinMonolayerFilms 168 5.2 DefectsinBilayerFilms 179 5.3 BilayerSilicaFilmasaTwo-DimensionalGlass 183 6 Ultrathin Films of (Al, Fe, Ti)-Silicates 191 6.1 ThinZeoliteFilms 192 6.2 UltrathinAluminosilicateFilms 199 6.3 Fe-SilicateFilms 204 6.4 (Fe,Al)-SilicateFilms 212 6.5 Ti-SilicateFilms 215 6.6 ControllingSilicaFilmCrystallinityviaMetalDoping 223 7 Adsorption on Ultrathin Silicate Films: Surface and “Sub-Surface” Reactions 233 7.1 InteractionwithAmbientGases 234 7.1.1 Oxygen 234 7.1.2 Hydrogen 238 7.1.3 CarbonMonoxide 240 7.1.4 SiO /Pd(111)vs.SiO /Ru(0001) 244 2 2 7.1.5 GeneralMechanism 248 7.2 BilayerFilmastheThinnestSilicaMembrane 250 7.3 ChemicalReactionsunderBilayerSilicaFilms 255 7.4 MetalDeposition 258 7.4.1 MetalAdsorptiononaMonolayerSilicate 258 7.4.2 MetalAdsorptiononBilayerSilicaFilms 262 March9,2022 14:39 JSPBook-9inx6in 00-Shaikhutdinov-Prelims Contents ix 8 Water Adsorption on Silica Films 271 8.1 WaterAdsorptiononaMonolayerFilm 274 8.2 ElectronBeamAssistedHydroxylation 281 8.3 HydroxylationofMetal-DopedSilicateFilms 287 9 Silicatene una Graphene 293 Index 309