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Pb Electrodeposition in the Presence of Chlorine Ions on Cu(100): An in Situ Optical Reflectivity Difference Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

J. Gray
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A.
W. Schwarzacher
Affiliation:
H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL, U.K.
X.D. Zhu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We studied the initial stages of the electrodeposition of Pb in the presence of chlorine ions on Cu(100), using an oblique-incidence optical reflectivity difference (OIRD) technique. The OI-RD results reveal that immediately following the underpotential deposition (UPD) of the first Pb monolayer, two different types of bulk-phase films grow depending upon the magnitude of overpotential and cyclic voltammetry (CV) scan rate. At low overpotentials and/or slow scan rates, we propose that a bulk-phase Pb film grows on top of the UPD monolayer. At high overpotentials and/or fast scan rates, either a PbO, PbCl2, or a rough Pb bulk-phase layer grows on top of the UPD layer such that the reflectivity difference signal from such a film has an opposite sign.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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