Hydrogen interactions with imperfections in crystalline metals and semiconductors are
reviewed. Emphasis is given to mechanistic experiments and theoretical advances …

In recent years, optical second-harmonic generation has matured into a versatile and
powerful technique for probing the electronic and structural properties of buried solid–solid …

Understanding the energy it takes to build or break chemical bonds is essential for scientists
and engineers in a wide range of innovative fields, including catalysis, nanomaterials …

This article focuses on recent scanning tunnelling microscopy studies that have led to an
improved understanding of the interaction of hydrogen with silicon surfaces. The structure …

Results are reported of a set of first-principles calculations for hydrogen interacting with bulk
Si, the Si surface, and with other impurities and defects in the Si lattice. The total energy …

The present report deals with the main aspects of the interaction of hydrogen with the
atomically clean crystalline silicon surfaces and submonolayer metal/silicon interfaces. After …

The dissociative adsorption of molecular hydrogen on silicon is considered to be the
prototype for an activated chemical reaction at a semiconductor surface. The covalent nature …

The recombinative desorption of hydrogen from the Si (100) 2× 1 monohydride state was
investigated by means of isothermal measurements using optical second-harmonic …

Recent developments in optical spectroscopy applied to semiconductor surfaces and
interfaces are reviewed. It is shown that, by exploiting the underlying physics of the various …

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multiphoton
processes and multiphoton spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry …