Showing papers in "Surface Science Reports in 2004"

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of stress and strain effects on surface physics is reviewed in a complementary way so that the surface stress and surface strain concepts based on a proper definition of surface elastic energy in terms of excess quantities are presented in depth.

TL;DR: In this article, an accurate determination of surface-state linewidth by scanning tunneling spectroscopy, photoemission and directly in the time domain by two-photon photo-emission is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take an experimentalist's view and discuss concepts of electron transfer/transport at metal-molecule interfaces and their intimate relationships to adsorption and non-adiabatic surface dynamics.

TL;DR: X-ray emission spectroscopy applied to surface adsorbates is an experimental technique that provides an atom-specific projection of the electronic structure in combination with theoretical density functional spectrum simulations, it becomes an extremely powerful tool to analyze in detail the surface chemical bond.

TL;DR: Recently, there are many reports showing that pulsed-laser deposition can significantly improve the growth of even simple metallic thin films/multilayers as mentioned in this paper, which provides great opportunities to design artificial thin film structures that have promising physical properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of strain on the band lineups alignments in strained heterostructures is discussed deeply, and the attention is focused on the most important results obtained by several groups in the characterization of semiconductor heterometructures using the following structural SR techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of the scattering of He atoms from both Cu(1/1/α ) metallic surfaces (with α = 0,2,3,5,7 indicating the surface corrugation), and single CO adsorbates on the Pt(1 / 1/α) surface is provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with mono-mode circuits for propagating photons, non-diffusive ballistic electrons, magnons, phonons, and plasmons and show that the interfaces between the different wires out of which the circuits are made of play a fundamental role.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide ab initio calculations based on cluster and periodic models to analyze the adsorption of the reactants in reduced, oxidized and stoichiometric surfaces, assuming dry and wet conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the adsorption on the resistance of thin film electrodes, including adsorptions processes of ions, organic compounds, oxygen, hydrogen and underpotential deposition, is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on periodic perturbation of catalytic reactions is presented, which can result in complex reaction behavior, including period doubling and irregular kinetics provided that the external and internal frequencies do not coincide.