Conspectus Molecular deposition on solid surfaces forms crystalline or amorphous/glassy
thin solid films. Intermolecular interactions govern the packing and dynamics of these films …

Low-energy electrons are ubiquitous in nature and play an important role in natural
phenomena as well as many potential and current industrial processes. Authored by 16 …

The motivation to study experimentally CO ice under mimicked interstellar conditions is
supported by the large CO gas abundances and ubiquitous presence of CO in icy grain …

Non-thermal desorption of interstellar and circumstellar ice mantles on dust grains, in
particular ultraviolet photon-induced desorption, has gained importance in recent years …

Absorption spectra of vacuum‐deposited films of ammonia have been obtained in the range
115 nm to 310 nm for a set of 15 deposition temperatures, Td, between 20 K and 80 K …

Spontaneous orientation of molecular dipoles has been observed to produce bulk electric
fields, termed 'spontelectric'fields, in a broad variety of molecular solid thin films formed by …

Using reflection–absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS), we show that solids displaying
spontaneous dipole orientation possess quite general non-local and non-linear …

In dense clouds of the interstellar medium, dust grains are covered by ice mantles,
dominated by H2O. CO and CO2 are common ice components observed in infrared spectra …

At present, the study of diverse habitable environments of astrobiological interest has
become a major challenge. Due to the obvious technical and economical limitations on in …

Absorption spectra of films of N2O, in the range 115–160 nm, are presented for deposition
temperatures between 33 K and 64 K. Observed shifts in the absorption energy vs …