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U. Diebold:
"Surface Science Investigations of Metal Oxides: Applications, Fundamentals and Insights";
Vortrag: Seminar Institut für Festkörperphysik, TU Wien; 21.04.2010.

Metal oxides exhibit an extremely wide variety in their physical and chemical
properties, which makes them useful in a large number of technological
applications. In many of these technical fields surface and interface properties play
a dominant role. Our research focuses on investigating the fundamental properties
of metal oxide surfaces using a combination of surface spectroscopies and
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy with atomic resolution.
In the talk I will discuss selected examples of recent research results, with
particular emphasis on the role of hydrogen on the electronic structure [1], reactivity
[2], and diffusion processes [3] on metal oxide surfaces.
[1] Gareth Parkinson, Narasimham Mulakaluri, Yaroslav Losovji, Peter Jacobson, Rossitza Pentcheva
Ulrike Diebold "Adsorption-Induced Half-Metallicity at the Magnetite (001) Surface", submitted
[2] S.-C. Li and Ulrike Diebold "Reactivity of TiO2 Rutile and Anatase Surfaces towards Nitroaromatics
of the American Chemical Society, 132 (2010) 64 - 66
[3] Shaochun Li, U. Diebold, Li-Na Chu, and Xue-Qing Gong "Hydrogen controls the dynamics of
catechol adsorbed on a TiO2(110) surface" Science, in press