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simple metal-clusters, work-function, oxide clusters, jellium model, molecules, approximation, stability, energies, physics, cesium, Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Optics, Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical, Physics, SIMPLE METAL-CLUSTERS, WORK-FUNCTION, OXIDE CLUSTERS, JELLIUM MODEL, MOLECULES, APPROXIMATION, STABILITY, ENERGIES, PHYSICS, CESIUM, 02 Physical Sciences, General Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, 51 Physical sciences

Abstract:

The influence of doping of Li-clusters by electronegative O and C atoms on the ionization potentials was investigated. Experimentally, we report ionization potentials for bare Li-n clusters (10 less than or equal to n less than or equal to 70) deduced from photoionization efficiency spectra. The values are compared with the results for LinO and LinC clusters. Observed differences are largely attributed to a quantum size effect caused by the segregated molecular part around the impurity, which changes the electron work function. Theoretically, the Fermi and exchange-correlation energies which enter the work function, are calculated in the frame of the augmented plane wave (APW) method by taking explicitly into account the presence of the molecular core. The other contribution to the work function, the moment of the double layer at the cluster surface, is computed by solving the corresponding Poisson's equation.