It is now generally recognized that the contact between a metal electrode and a single, a
small group, or a thin film of molecules can play a critical, if not dominant, role in the …

Theoretical aspects of dynamical processes at metal surfaces are reviewed. Experimental
challenges to theory are presented and progress toward meeting these challenges is …

The desorption of atoms or molecules from solid surfaces is a key step in heterogeneous
catalysis, photocatalysis, electrochemistry, and surface nanochemistry. The breaking of a …

The absorption of photons by an adsorbate/substrate complex may induce a wide range of
physical and chemical processes, such as desorption, dissociation and reactions. Although …

This paper presents a new approach for material removal on silicon at atomic and close-to-
atomic scale assisted by photons. The corresponding mechanisms are also investigated …

Chemical reactions at surfaces do not follow the same reaction dynamics as atoms in the
gas phase. The changes from" ideal" interactions depend on the electronic structure and the …

Nanooptics which describes the interaction of light with matter at the nanoscale, is a topic of
great fundamental interest to physicists and engineers and allows the direct observation of …

Some time ago, it has been observed that vibrationally highly excited NO (v) molecules (with
typical vibrational quantum numbers v≈ 15) lose substantial amounts of vibrational energy …

We have performed a density functional study of the electronic structure, images and
vibrationally inelastic tunneling in the scanning tunneling microscope and vibrational …

In this essay we discuss the light-matter interactions at molecule-covered metal surfaces that
initiate surface photochemistry. The hot-electron mechanism for surface photochemistry …