Determination of the Microscopic Structure of Surface and Overlayers, Adsorbate-Adsorbate Interaction Energies, and Rates of Surface Processes.

Abstract

Progress has occurred in three major areas. First, work has continued in the general area of surface crystallography making use of low-energy electron diffraction. Second, a supersonic nozzle ultrahigh vacuum molecular beam surface scattering machine has been designed and constructed. This extremely versatile instrument allows precise measurement of a wide variety of surface phemonena including the elementary steps in gas-solid chemical reactions. Finally, a high pressure microreactor has been designed and constructed. This microreactor will be a useful adjunct to the molecular beam machine since in the former overall reaction kinetics will be measured under realistic pressure conditions, whereas in the latter elementary reaction rates will be measured under conditions of low pressure. Each of these three projects is described in detail below.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 28, 1982
Accession Number
ADA124418

Entities

People

  • W. Henry Weinberg

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Auger Electrons
  • Base Pressure
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Electron Diffraction
  • Electrons
  • High Pressure
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Measurement
  • Molecular Beams
  • O Rings
  • Phase Transformations
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Spectrometry
  • Transition Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow
  • Microelectronics