Focused sticking of light mass particles in physisorption
Abstract
In the scattering of atoms and molecules from surfaces, focusing effects can give rise to a variety of significant features in both the experimentally measured elastic and inelastic scattering intensities. The study of focusing is extended to the case of sticking of atoms upon scattering into the physisorption potential well. It is demonstrated that this focused sticking (FS) should give rise to enhancements of the sticking coefficient for certain well-defined incident conditions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- March 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.121404
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvB..63l1404M
- Keywords:
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- 82.65.+r;
- 68.43.Mn;
- 79.20.Rf;
- Surface and interface chemistry;
- heterogeneous catalysis at surfaces;
- Adsorption/desorption kinetics;
- Atomic molecular and ion beam impact and interactions with surfaces