The book describes the experimental techniques employed to study surfaces and interfaces.
The emphasis is on the experimental method. Therefore all chapters start with an …

The recently discovered effects of quantum scattering for atoms and molecules with impact
energies in the keV range on well ordered surfaces at glancing angles of incidence has …

This perspective article reviews the state-of-the-art of grazing incidence fast atom and
molecule diffraction (GIFAD and GIFMD) simulations and addresses the main challenges …

Grazing incidence fast atom diffraction (GIFAD) at surfaces has made rapid progress and
has established itself as a surface analysis tool where effective energy E⊥ of the motion …

He atoms and H 2 molecules with energies of 2 keV are scattered under grazing angles of
incidence ranging from 0.2° to 1.8° from the surface of a monolayer silica film grown on a Mo …

A grazing incidence fast atom diffraction (GIFAD or FAD) setup, installed on a molecular
beam epitaxy chamber, has been used to characterize the β 2 (2× 4) reconstruction of a …

In this paper we address, both experimentally and theoretically, the very grazing scattering
of He atoms off KCl (001) with incidence along the〈 100〉 channel. Our theoretical model …

Quantum diffraction of fast atoms scattered from the topmost layer of surfaces under grazing
angles of incidence can be employed for the analysis of detailed structural properties of …

Grazing incidence fast atom diffraction at crystal surfaces (GIFAD or FAD) has demonstrated
coherent diffraction both at effective energies close to one eV (λ⊥≈ 14 pm for He) and at …

In this work we introduce a distorted-wave method, based on the initial value representation
approach of the quantum evolution operator, in order to improve the description of rainbow …