Local investigation of femtosecond laser induced dynamics of water nanoclusters on Cu(111)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Mehlhorn, Michael ^a   Carrasco, Javier ^b,c   Michaelides, Angelos ^b   Morgenstern, Karina ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CU(1 1 1); DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECONDS; INTERFACIAL WATER; LASER FLUENCES; LASER ILLUMINATION; LINEAR DIFFUSION; LOCAL STRUCTURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; SINGLE MOLECULE; WATER CLUSTER; WATER DIFFUSION; WATER NANOCLUSTERS;

DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; LASER EXCITATION; LASER THEORY; NANOCLUSTERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 68749107219     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.026101     Document Type: Article

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