The development of surface science of solid metal surfaces during the last 50 years has
been intimately connected with heterogeneous catalysis and culminated in the Nobel prize …

Photochemical surface processes are initiated by the absorption of photons by an adsorbate
or the substrate, and followed by various energy transfer and relaxation processes that lead …

We have investigated the adsorption of NO on a thin NiO (100) film of several layers
thickness grown on top of a Ni (100) surface in comparison with data of an in vacuo cleaved …

This article reviews aspects of photochemistry on solid surfaces. In order to understand the
photo-induced processes a brief introduction is given to the interaction between light and the …

We have studied the UV‐laser‐induced desorption of NO adsorbed on an epitaxial film of
NiO (111) grown on Ni (111). The desorbing molecules were detected state selectively via a …

The absorption of NO was studied using high resolution XPS and UPS. Two different
adsorbed molecular species, one at low and one at high coverage, together with one …

Photodesorption of small molecules from surfaces is one of the most fundamental processes
in surface photochemistry. Despite its apparent simplicity, a microscopic understanding …

We present an experimental set-up which can image state selectively the two-dimensional
angular distribution of neutrals or ions desorbing from a surface after UV-laser excitation …

Insight into the mechanisms underlying the interaction of molecules with solid surfaces can
be obtained from the translational and internal energy distributions of desorbing or scattered …

This report summarizes our work on UV-laser induced desorption of small molecules and
atoms from transition metal oxides. The systems presented serve as examples for a simple …