Computational approaches to dissociative chemisorption on metals: towards chemical accuracy

GJ Kroes - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the-art in the theory of dissociative chemisorption (DC) of small gas
phase molecules on metal surfaces, which is important to modeling heterogeneous catalysis …

Atom-surface van der Waals potentials of topological insulators and semimetals from scattering measurements

A Tamtögl, A Ruckhofer, D Campi, W Allison… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The phenomenology of resonant scattering has been known since the earliest experiments
upon scattering of atomic beams from surfaces and is a means of obtaining experimental …

Dynamical effects as a window into van der Waals interactions in grazing-incidence fast He-atom diffraction from KCl (001)

GA Bocan, H Breiss, S Szilasi, A Momeni… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
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 …

Anomalous KCl (001) surface corrugation from fast He diffraction at very grazing incidence

GA Bocan, H Breiss, S Szilasi, A Momeni… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We present theoretical and experimental evidence of an anomalous surface corrugation
behavior in He-KCl (001) for incidence along⟨ 110⟩. When the He normal energy …

Transfer-matrix theory of surface spin-echo experiments with molecules

JT Cantin, G Alexandrowicz, RV Krems - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
He 3 beam spin-echo experiments have been used to study surface morphology, molecular
and atomic surface diffusion, phonon dispersions, phason dispersions, and phase …

Helium–Surface Interaction and Electronic Corrugation of Bi2Se3(111)

A Ruckhofer, A Tamtögl, M Pusterhofer… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present a study of the atom–surface interaction potential for the He–Bi2Se3 (111)
system. Using selective adsorption resonances, we are able to obtain the complete …

Prominent out-of-plane diffraction in helium scattering from a methyl-terminated Si (111) surface

M Del Cueto, AS Muzas, TJ Frankcombe… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their electrochemical and oxidative stability, organic-terminated semiconductor
surfaces are well suited to applications in, for example, photoelectrodes and electrochemical …

[PDF][PDF] Hydrogen dissociation on metal surfaces: A semi-empirical approach

E Nour Ghassemi - Chemistry Letters, 2015 - scholarlypublications …
The accurate description of the dissociative chemisorption of a molecule on a metal surface
requires a chemically accurate description of the moleculesurface interaction. Previously, it …