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Helium atom scattering spectroscopy of surface phonons: genesis and achievements

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In this article, the dispersion curves of surface phonons in insulators, semiconductors and metals have been measured and anomalously soft surface phonon branches below the longitudinal acoustic band were observed.
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This article is published in Surface Science.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surface phonon & Helium atom scattering.

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Helium-3 spin-echo: Principles and application to dynamics at surfaces

TL;DR: A detailed review of the use of the recently developed helium-3 spin-echo technique and its application to several classes of surface dynamic measurements is given in this paper, along with the approaches used to describe such measurements and the instrumentation developed to realize its application.
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Growth of semiconductor layers studied by spot profile analysing low energy electron diffraction – Part I1

TL;DR: In this paper, the position of the diffraction spots is used to determine lateral lattice constants, step heights and the strain state of heterosystems with a precision of 0.02 A.
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Single- and multiphonon atom–surface scattering in the quantum regime

Branko Gumhalter
- 01 Sep 2001 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the theoretical interpretation of inelastic scattering of thermal energy beams of He and other noble gas atoms from surfaces is presented, with a special emphasis on the successful interpretation of multiphonon He atom scattering (HAS) experiments.
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Phonon dynamics of graphene on metals.

TL;DR: This article reviews recent progress made in the experimental determination of phonon dispersion curves of graphene grown on several single-crystal metal surfaces and considers the bending rigidity and the graphene-substrate coupling strength.
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Helium atom scattering study of the frustrated translation mode of CO adsorbed on the Cu(001) surface

TL;DR: In this article, the structure and vibrational modes of CO adsorbed on Cu(001) have been investigated by helium atom scattering (HAS), and the results are interpreted with the aid of slab calculations.
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Embedded-atom method: Derivation and application to impurities, surfaces, and other defects in metals

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived an expression for the total energy of a metal using the embedding energy from which they obtained several ground-state properties, such as the lattice constant, elastic constants, sublimation energy, and vacancy-formation energy.
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Optical Properties of Solids

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Physics at Surfaces

TL;DR: Physics at Surfaces as discussed by the authors is a unique graduate-level introduction to the physics and chemical physics of solid surfaces and atoms and molecules that interact with solid surfaces, and it provides a synthesis of the entire field of surface physics from the perspective of a modern condensed matter physicist with a healthy interest in chemical physics.
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Physics of Powder Metallurgy

Thomas A. Read
- 01 Nov 1949 - 
TL;DR: Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. as discussed by the authors recently sponsored a symposium on the physics of powder metallurgy at Fort Totten in Bayside, Long Island.
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New π -Bonded Chain Model for Si(111)-(2×1) Surface

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined several qualitatively different structural models for the Si(111)-(2/ifmmode/times/else\texttimes\fi{}1) surface.