Anomalies in the Heat-Capacity Signatures of Submonolayer Adsorbates with Attractive Lateral Interactions.
Abstract
The analytic closed form of the heat-capacity signatures previously derived for the McQuistan-Hock (MQH) model of a lattice gas is applied to a various adsorbed systems for which the lateral interaction varies from a few meV to about 300 meV. It is shown that whenever the adsorption system can be described by a two-dimensional gas on which the substrate effects are less important than the adatom-adatom interactions, the computed temperatures at which the heat-capacity signatures display their maximum are in excellent agreement with the experimental measurements. Keywords: Heat capacities, Submonolayer adsorbates, Attractive lateral interactions, Anomalies, McQuistan hock model, Two dimensional lattice.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA190736
Entities
People
- Franco Battaglia
- Thomas F. George
- Young S. Kim
Organizations
- University at Buffalo