Electron Collisions with Molecules, Clusters, and Surfaces

✍ Scribed by T. N. Rescigno (auth.), H. Ehrhardt, L. A. Morgan (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Physics of Atoms and Molecules
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains the invited papers and selected contributed papers presented at the biennial International Symposium on ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH MOLECULES, CLUSTERS AND SURF ACES held at Royal Holloway, University of London from 29th to 30th July, 1993. This Symposium was a Satellite Meeting of the XVIII International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) and follows a 16 year tradition of Satellite Conferences in related areas of collisions held in association with previous ICPEAC's. In the past each of these electron -molecule symposia covered the broad field of electron-molecule scattering at rather low energies, but also included hot topics. This time as well as covering the whole field, well defined electron collisions with clusters and with particles in the complex potential of a surface were emphasized. Not many details are known about such collisions, although they become more and more important in surface characterisation, plasma-wall interactions, electron induced desorption and reorganisation of adsorbed particles. Recently, much work, theoretical and experimental, has been devoted to electron collisions with rather large carbon, silicon and halogen containing molecules. These problems are of relevance in plasma assisted thin film formation and etching of surfaces and can now be approached with advanced theoretical methods and experimental equipment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Non-Adiabatic Effects in Low-Energy Electron-Molecule Scattering....Pages 1-13
R-Matrix Calculations of Inelastic Electron Scattering by Diatomic Molecules....Pages 15-29
Differential Electron Impact Cross Section of the a 3 Π Electronic Excitation of CO Near Threshold....Pages 31-45
Electron Scattering by Vibrationallly Excited Molecules....Pages 47-62
Dissociative Attachment of Low Energy Electrons: Vibrational Dependence of Negative Ion Formation in Na 2 (ν) + e Collisions....Pages 63-70
A Generalized Single Centre Approach for Treating Electron Scattering from Polyatomic Molecules....Pages 71-86
Low Energy Electron Scattering by Polar Polyatomic Molecules....Pages 87-104
Recent Experiments on Electron-Polyatomic Molecule Scattering....Pages 105-118
Dissociative Attachment in CH 3 Cl and C 2 H 5 Cl: Experiment and Theory....Pages 119-125
Electron Impact Induced Dissociative Excitation and Ionization of Halogen-Containing Molecules....Pages 127-140
Valence and Inner Shell Multipole Electronic Excitations in Chlorofluorocarbons by Momentum-Transfer-Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy....Pages 141-150
The Scattering of Electrons by Chiral and Oriented Molecules....Pages 151-161
The Scattering of Longitudinally Polarized Electrons from Chiral Molecules and Optical Rotatory Power....Pages 163-170
Theoretical Study of Electron Scattering by Small Clusters and Adsorbates....Pages 171-182
Low-Energy Electron Collisions with Metal Clusters: Electron Capture and Cluster Fragmentation....Pages 183-193
High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Free Fullerenes....Pages 195-210
Electronic Excitation of C 60 Vapour by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy....Pages 211-216
Electron Scattering by Adsorbed Molecules: Dynamics of the Resonant Vibrational Excitation....Pages 217-226
Resonant Electron Scattering by Adsorbed Molecules: Effect of the Molecular Axis Orientation....Pages 227-232
Applications of EELS in the Photochemistry and in the Characterization of Thin Al-Oxide Layers....Pages 233-241
Electron Scattering by Oriented Molecules on Surfaces....Pages 243-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-264

✦ Subjects

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Classical Continuum Physics;Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy;Condensed Matter Physics