Dynamics of Molecular Motion at Single-Crystal Surfaces
J. C. Tully 1 and
M. J. Cardillo 2
1 Member of the technical staff, Department at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974.
2 Head of the Chemical Physics, Department at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974.
Dramatic advances in our understanding of the motion of individual atoms and molecules at single-crystal surfaces have been made within the past 5 years. Recent experimental and theoretical studies of the interaction of nitric oxide with metal surfaces illustrate the depth of understanding now obtainable. General principles, applicable to a broader range of molecule-surface encounters, have begun to emerge out of the systematic and in-depth analyses of these and related studies.