Electron Collisions with Molecules, Clusters, and Surfaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Electron Collisions with Molecules

   1. Non-Adiabatic Effects in Low-Energy Electron-Molecule Scattering

      • T. N. Rescigno

      Pages 1-13

   2. R-Matrix Calculations of Inelastic Electron Scattering by Diatomic Molecules

      • Lesley A. Morgan, Baljit K. Sarpal, Jonathan Tennyson

      Pages 15-29

   3. Differential Electron Impact Cross Section of the a3Π Electronic Excitation of CO Near Threshold

      • J. Zobel, U. Mayer, K. Jung, D. N. Tripathi, D. K. Rai, H. Ehrhardt

      Pages 31-45

   4. Electron Scattering by Vibrationallly Excited Molecules

      • N. J. Mason, W. M. Johnstone, P. Akther

      Pages 47-62

   5. Dissociative Attachment of Low Energy Electrons: Vibrational Dependence of Negative Ion Formation in Na₂ (ν) +e Collisions

      • M. Külz, A. Kortyna, M. Keil, B. Schellhaaß, K. Bergmann

      Pages 63-70

   6. A Generalized Single Centre Approach for Treating Electron Scattering from Polyatomic Molecules

      • F. A. Gianturco, R. R. Lucchese, N. Sanna, A. Talamo

      Pages 71-86

   7. Low Energy Electron Scattering by Polar Polyatomic Molecules

      • Stephen J. Buckman, Robert J. Gulley, Michael J. Brunger

      Pages 87-104

   8. Recent Experiments on Electron-Polyatomic Molecule Scattering

      • Michael Allan

      Pages 105-118

   9. Dissociative Attachment in CH3Cl and C2H5Cl: Experiment and Theory

      • I. I. Fabrikant, D. M. Pearl, P. D. Burrow, G. A. Gallup

      Pages 119-125

   10. Electron Impact Induced Dissociative Excitation and Ionization of Halogen-Containing Molecules

       • Kurt H. Becker

       Pages 127-140

   11. Valence and Inner Shell Multipole Electronic Excitations in Chlorofluorocarbons by Momentum-Transfer-Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

       • J. F. Ying, C. P. Mathers, K. T. Leung

       Pages 141-150

   12. The Scattering of Electrons by Chiral and Oriented Molecules

       • D. G. Thompson

       Pages 151-161

   13. The Scattering of Longitudinally Polarized Electrons from Chiral Molecules and Optical Rotatory Power

       • G. A. Gallup

       Pages 163-170

3. Electron Collisions with Clusters

   1. Theoretical Study of Electron Scattering by Small Clusters and Adsorbates

      • Winifred M. Huo, J. A. Sheehy

      Pages 171-182

   2. Low-Energy Electron Collisions with Metal Clusters: Electron Capture and Cluster Fragmentation

      • Vitaly V. Kresin, Adi Scheidemann, Walter D. Knight

      Pages 183-193

   3. High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Free Fullerenes

      • A. Ding

      Pages 195-210

   4. Electronic Excitation of C60 Vapour by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

      • R. Abouaf, J. Pommier, S. Cvejanovic

      Pages 211-216

4. Electron Collisions at Surfaces

   1. Electron Scattering by Adsorbed Molecules: Dynamics of the Resonant Vibrational Excitation

      • J. P. Gauyacq, V. Djamo, D. Teillet-Billy

      Pages 217-226

   2. Resonant Electron Scattering by Adsorbed Molecules: Effect of the Molecular Axis Orientation

      • V. Djamo, D. Teillet-Billy, J. P. Gauyacq

      Pages 227-232

This volume contains the invited papers and selected contributed papers presented at the biennial International Symposium on ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH MOLECULES, CLUSTERS AND SURF ACES held at Royal Holloway, University of London from 29th to 30th July, 1993. This Symposium was a Satellite Meeting of the XVIII International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) and follows a 16 year tradition of Satellite Conferences in related areas of collisions held in association with previous ICPEAC's. In the past each of these electron -molecule symposia covered the broad field of electron-molecule scattering at rather low energies, but also included hot topics. This time as well as covering the whole field, well defined electron collisions with clusters and with particles in the complex potential of a surface were emphasized. Not many details are known about such collisions, although they become more and more important in surface characterisation, plasma-wall interactions, electron induced desorption and reorganisation of adsorbed particles. Recently, much work, theoretical and experimental, has been devoted to electron collisions with rather large carbon, silicon and halogen containing molecules. These problems are of relevance in plasma assisted thin film formation and etching of surfaces and can now be approached with advanced theoretical methods and experimental equipment.

• Cross section
• Electron energy loss spectroscopy
• cluster
• collision
• diatomic molecule
• molecule
• scattering

• Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  H. Ehrhardt

• Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, England

  L. A. Morgan

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