AVS 53rd International Symposium
    Surface Science Wednesday Sessions

Session SS2-WeM
Electronic and Vibrational Excitations and Dynamics

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 8:00 am, Room 2004
Moderator: M. Trenary, University of Illinois, Chicago


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8:00am SS2-WeM1
Theory of Electron-Hole Pair Excitation in Chemisorption
M.S. Mizielinski, D.M. Bird, University of Bath, UK, M. Persson, S. Holloway, University of Liverpool, UK
8:20am SS2-WeM2
Adsorption-State-Dependent Subpicosecond Photoinduced Desorption Dynamics
P. Szymanski, A.L. Harris, Brookhaven National Laboratory, M.G. White, Brookhaven National Laboratory and SUNY Stony Brook, N. Camillone III, Brookhaven National Laboratory
8:40am SS2-WeM3 Invited Paper
High Resolution Photoemission as a Probe of the Collective Excitations in Condensed Matter Systems
P.D. Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
9:20am SS2-WeM5
The Origin of Work function Changes Induced by Adsorbates on Metal Surfaces: A Theoretical Analysis
P.S. Bagus, University of North Texas, C. Wöll, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
9:40am SS2-WeM6
Rotational Disorder in Ordered Overlayer Phases
E.Z. Ciftlikli, I.G. Shuttleworth, A.V. Ermakov, J. Lallo, S. Rangan, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, S.D. Senanayake, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, B.J. Hinch, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
10:40am SS2-WeM9
Mechanisms of Isomerization and Dehydrocyclization of n-Hexane on Pt(100) and Pt(111) Surfaces Studied with Sum Frequency Generation
K.M. Bratlie, G.A. Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley
11:00am SS2-WeM10
Alane Formation on Al(111)
J.-F. Veyan, Y.J. Chabal, Rutgers University
11:20am SS2-WeM11 Invited Paper
Exploring Experimental Vibrational Spectra of Surface Adsorbates Using DFT Modeling
P. Uvdal, Lund University, Sweden
12:00pm SS2-WeM13
Kinetics of NH Formation and Dissociation on Pt(111)
R.J. Meyer, K. Mudiyanselage, M. Trenary, University of Illinois at Chicago