Probing surface and interface morphology with grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering

G Renaud, R Lazzari, F Leroy - Surface Science Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are tremendously increasing fields of research that aim at
producing, characterizing and understanding nanoobjects and assemblies of nanoobjects …

Colloquium: Light scattering by particle and hole arrays

FJ García de Abajo - Reviews of modern physics, 2007 - APS
This Colloquium analyzes the interaction of light with two-dimensional periodic arrays of
particles and holes. The enhanced optical transmission observed in the latter and the …

The chemistry and physics of zinc oxide surfaces

C Wöll - Progress in surface science, 2007 - Elsevier
Metal oxides are virtually everywhere–only gold has the property not to form an oxide on its
surface when exposed to the ambient. As a result, understanding the physics and chemistry …

Water adsorption and dynamics on graphene and other 2D materials: computational and experimental advances

M Sacchi, A Tamtögl - Advances in physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The interaction of water and surfaces, at molecular level, is of critical importance for
understanding processes such as corrosion, friction, catalysis and mass transport. The …

Reactive and Nonreactive Scattering of H2 from a Metal Surface Is Electronically Adiabatic

P Nieto, E Pijper, D Barredo, G Laurent, RA Olsen… - Science, 2006 - science.org
The Born-Oppenheimer approximation of uncoupled electronic and nuclear motion is a
standard tool of the computational chemist. However, its validity for molecule–metal surface …

Material properties particularly suited to be measured with helium scattering: selected examples from 2D materials, van der Waals heterostructures, glassy materials …

B Holst, G Alexandrowicz, N Avidor… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Helium Atom Scattering (HAS) and Helium Spin-Echo scattering (HeSE), together helium
scattering, are well established, but non-commercial surface science techniques. They are …

Electronic and geometric corrugation of periodically rippled, self-nanostructured graphene epitaxially grown on Ru (0001)

B Borca, S Barja, M Garnica, M Minniti… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Graphene epitaxially grown on Ru (0001) displays a remarkably ordered pattern of hills and
valleys in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images. The extent to which the …

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 …

Constructing accurate potential energy surfaces for a diatomic molecule interacting with a solid surface: and

RA Olsen, HF Busnengo, A Salin, MF Somers… - The Journal of …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
By applying a corrugation-reducing procedure we have interpolated the six-dimensional
(6D) potential energy surfaces for the H 2/Pt (111) and H 2/Cu (100) systems from data …

[HTML][HTML] Neutral helium atom microscopy

AS Palau, SD Eder, G Bracco, B Holst - Ultramicroscopy, 2023 - Elsevier
Neutral helium atom microscopy, also referred to as scanning helium microscopy and
commonly abbreviated SHeM or NAM (neutral atom microscopy), is a novel imaging …