… It was recently shown that electronic excitations form a … metal surfaces and efficient electron
emission. It was then argued that the conversion of these vibrations to electronic excitations …

… describe electronic excitations of the metal. The corresponding chemical processes on the
surface … furtheron and electronic excitations will be identified with e–h pairs only in this review. …

… Instead, we concentrate on those spectroscopic methods that reveal surface electronic
excitations most directly and those systems for which comparisons with calculations based on the …

… -hole (e − /h + ) pairs as a routine feature of gas-metal interactions suggests that local …
electronic excitations on Ag surfaces during reactions that represent a range of gas-metal …

… electronic excitation, so the charge can be transferred and used for the intended purpose.
Scattering of the excited electron … and the primary excitation energy will be dissipated as heat. …

… in many areas of surface physics. At metal surfaces electronic relaxation occurs on the …
resonant coupling with a continuum of substrate excitations. Recent advances in ultrafast laser …

… the energetic equivalent of the surface work function, strong evidence that we are witnessing
direct conversion of vibrational energy to electronic excitation in the metal. These results …

… spectroscopic studies of the electronic properties of various … the dynamic surface response
of a semi-infinite electron gas … interpretation of surface electronic excitations of real metals. …

… Recent progress in experimental and theoretical investigations of surface electronic
excitations of metals is reviewed with an emphasis on surface plasmon dispersion. The …

… The problem that we address here is how to incorporate such electronic excitations into the
collision theory of surface reactions. Since the accurate calculation of the reactive collision …