Transport of adsorbates at metal surfaces: from thermal migration to hot precursors

JV Barth - Surface Science Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
Theoretical aspects and evolution of surface diffusion studies are discussed with an
emphasis on non-metallic adsorbates at metal surfaces. A survey of the existing literature is …

Helium-3 spin-echo: Principles and application to dynamics at surfaces

AP Jardine, H Hedgeland, G Alexandrowicz… - Progress in Surface …, 2009 - Elsevier
In this review we give a detailed description of the recently developed helium-3 spin-echo
technique and its application to several classes of surface dynamic measurements. We …

Collective and single particle diffusion on surfaces

T Ala-Nissila, R Ferrando, SC Ying - Advances in Physics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
We review in this article the current theoretical understanding of collective and single
particle diffusion on surfaces and how it relates to the existing experimental data. We begin …

[LIVRE][B] Physical adsorption: forces and phenomena

LW Bruch, MW Cole, E Zaremba - 2007 - books.google.com
A comprehensive account of the phenomena that occur when simple gases interact with
surfaces, this text takes a fundamental perspective. Physical adsorption involves atomic or …

High-resolution helium atom time-of-flight spectroscopy of low-frequency vibrations of adsorbates

F Hofmann, JP Toennies - Chemical reviews, 1996 - ACS Publications
The atomic-level description of the interatomic interactions determining the structure and
dynamics of clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces is one of the most fundamental topics in …

Jumps and concerted moves in Cu, Ag, and Au (110) adatom self-diffusion

F Montalenti, R Ferrando - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
We present a molecular-dynamics simulation of self-diffusion on the (110) surfaces of Cu,
Ag, and Au. The metals are modeled by semiempirical potentials developed in the …

Vibrational spectroscopy and theory of alkali metal adsorption and co-adsorption on single-crystal surfaces

A Politano, G Chiarello, G Benedek, EV Chulkov… - Surface science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Alkali-metal (AM) atoms adsorbed on single-crystal surfaces are a model system for
understanding the properties of adsorption. AM adsorption, besides introducing new …

Surface diffusion in the low-friction limit: Occurrence of long jumps

LY Chen, MR Baldan, SC Ying - Physical Review B, 1996 - APS
We present a molecular dynamics (MD) study of a Brownian particle in a two-dimensional
periodic potential. For a separable potential, the study of the diffusion constant along the …

Effect of kinks and concerted diffusion mechanisms on mass transport and growth on stepped metal surfaces

J Merikoski, I Vattulainen, J Heinonen, T Ala-Nissila - Surface science, 1997 - Elsevier
We study the effect of kinks and concerted atomic mechanisms on diffusion processes
relevant to metal-on-metal homoepitaxy on fcc metal surfaces vicinal to the fcc (100) …

The dynamics of activated surface diffusion

S Miret-Artés, E Pollak - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
An elementary process occurring on surfaces is diffusion. The dynamics is simplest when
the concentration of adsorbates is sufficiently small that interaction between adsorbates can …