Inverse velocity dependence of vibrationally promoted electron emission from a metal surface

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5893, 2008, Pages 1191-1194

  Nahler, N H ^a,c   White, J D ^a   LaRue, J ^a   Auerbach, D J ^b   Wodtke, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GRT Inc   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; NITRIC OXIDE;

ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; VELOCITY;

EID: 50649095898     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160040     Document Type: Article

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33. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the NSF (grant CHE-0454806) and the Partnership for International Research and Education - for Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces (NSF grant OISE-0530268). N.H.N. acknowledges financial support through a Feodor-Lynen fellowship provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We thank D. Matsiev for many useful discussions and suggestions and a critical reading of this manuscript.