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Mercury and C2B10 Icosahedra Interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Carolina C. Ilie
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588–0111, U.S.A.
Petru Lunca-Popa
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588–0111, U.S.A.
Jiandi Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, U.S.A
Bernard Doudin
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588–0111, U.S.A.
Peter A. Dowben
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588–0111, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We contrast the interaction of mercury with adsorbed orthocarborane films and semiconducting (dehydrogenated) boron carbide. Photoemission spectra reveal small shifts in orthocarborane (C2B10H12) molecular orbital binding energies as well as the shift in mercury 5d5/2 shallow core level binding energies, suggesting only small interaction between mercury and the molecular film. Mercury does, however, interact with decomposed orthocarboranes i.e. semiconducting boron carbide.

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