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Growth and stability of surface chemical compounds in interaction between Be and (1010) Re surface
Rut'kov E. V.1, Gall N. R.1
1Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Email: rutkov@ms.ioffe.ru

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It is shown that the adsorption of Be on Re (1010) in the temperature range of 850-950 K leads to the formation of specific adsorption states - surface chemical compounds (SC) of ReBe stoichiometry with a concentration of adsorbed NBe atoms of ~1.4·1015 cm-2. A multilayer film of beryllium (3-4 layers) is destroyed upon heating, and at 900 K all Be atoms leave the surface into the bulk of rhenium, except those that are part of the SC; atoms from the SC, in turn, actively dissolve at T>1050-1150 K. This corresponds to a decrease in the activation energy of dissolution upon the formation of SC from about 3.3 to 2.7 eV. Thermal desorption of beryllium takes place only at T>2100 K due to the emergence of Be atoms dissolved in the bulk of the metal onto the surface. Keywords: beryllium, rhenium, surface chemical compounds, dissolution, thermal desorption
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