title: Time-resolved sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of cyclohexane adsorbed on Ni(111) under ultrashort NIR laser pulse irradiation.
abstract: The adsorption of cyclohexane on Ni(111) was studied by infrared-visible sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy with and without near-infrared (NIR) pump pulse irradiation. Two adsorption states of cyclohexane were found in the monolayer region, a low-coverage state showing SFG peaks at 2740, 2815, and 2865 cm(-1), and a high-coverage state showing peaks at 2740, 2815, and 2905 cm(-1). Both states coexisted on the saturated Ni(111) surface. The broad peak at 2740 cm(-1) was due to the softened CH stretching mode of the axial CH groups of cyclohexane that point toward the Ni(111) surface. The peaks at 2815 and 2865 (or 2905) cm(-1) were due to the symmetric and asymmetric stretching modes of CH(2) groups, respectively, that were free from the surface. Irradiation with NIR pulses caused a temporary jump in temperature at the Ni(111) surface and enhanced the intensity of the 2905 cm(-1) peak, but weakened the other peaks. This indicates that the temperature jump excited the cyclohexane molecules from the low-coverage state to the high-coverage state. The dynamics of the structural change observed in the adsorbed cyclohexane on NIR irradiation is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan. jkubota@res.titech.ac.jp
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Akihide
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: Kazunari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Domen