Thermal electron attachment to SF4 and SF6

Miller, Thomas M. ; Miller, Amy E. Stevens ; Paulson, John F. ; Liu, Xifan

College Park, Md. : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Published 1994
ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Rate coefficients for electron attachment to SF4 and SF6 have been measured over the temperature range 300–550 K using a flowing-afterglow Langmuir-probe apparatus. The 300 K rate coefficient for SF4 is 2.5±0.6×10−8 cm3 s−1, a value 11 times smaller than the corresponding rate for SF6. The attachment rate coefficients for both SF4 and SF6 are nearly independent of temperature up to 500 K, and decline somewhat at still higher temperatures. SF−4 is the only ionic product of attachment to SF4 observed over the entire temperature range. SF−6 and SF−5 are products of attachment to SF6; an "activation energy'' of 0.42±0.02 eV is inferred for SF−5 production.
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