Upgraded sublimation energy determination procedure for icy films

“NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in . Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in VACUUM, [VOL 86, ISSUE 12, (2012-06)] DOI10.1016/j.vacuum.2012.05.010¨ A method to determine the sublimation energy of a bulk ice in high vacuum systems, allowing other simultaneous analysis techniques, is presented. Variation in frequency of a quartz crystal microbalance, due to sublimating material, during a zeroth-order desorption consents to obtain this energy. CO 2 sublimation energy is obtained to check this method, its value is coherent with that reported in the literature. Our method permits to simplify the setup used so far by other authors, and to obtain relevant parameters for ices simultaneously. The procedure explained here corrects the temperature frequency dependence of the microbalance and the effect of contaminants by using a unique microbalance. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work was supported by the Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (Co-financed by FEDER funds) AYA 2004-05382 and AYA 2007-65899. Luna Molina, R.; Millán Verdú, C.; Domingo Beltran, M.; Santonja Moltó, MDC.; Satorre Aznar, MÁ. (2012). Upgraded sublimation energy determination procedure for icy films. Vacuum. 86(12):1969-1973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2012.05.010