Laser-Induced Gas-Phase and Surface Rate Processes: Electronic Excitations and Bound-Continuum Interactions.
Abstract
Two different types of laser-induced gas-phase rate processes are studied theoretically: collisional ionization and multiphoton resonances in atom-atom scattering. The first involves the coupling between bound and continuum electronic states, and the second between bound and continuum vibrational states. In connection with surface processes, the use of a laser to excite electrons from the valence band to surface states of a semiconductor and the resulting effect on an adspecies is explored. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA115194
Entities
People
- Kai-shue Lam
- Michael Hutchinson
- Thomas F. George
- William C. Murphy
Organizations
- University of Rochester