Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters

source: Li-Na and Li-Mg.- Electronic properties of aluminum clusters compared with the jellium model.- Spectroscopy of size-selected sodium clusters.- Stability of isomeric Nan clusters.- Shell effects on symmetric fragmentations of alkali-metal clusters.- Shell effects on fragmentations of doubly-charged silver clusters.- Electronic shell structure in multiply charged silver clusters.- Shell effects in singly and multiply charged silver and gold clusters.- Optical spectroscopy on size selected gold clusters deposited in rare gas matrices.- Nonsimple Metal Clusters.- Photoelectron spectroscopy and UV/Vis-photoabsorption spectroscopy of isolated clusters.- Electronic properties of divalent-metal clusters.- Bonding properties of IIA and IIB dimers in density functional theory with gradient corrections to the local density approximation.- Structural and dynamical properties of magnesium microclusters.- A density functional molecular dynamics study of the bonding and stability of Mgn clusters (n = 2?13).- Enthalpies of formation of gaseous Zintl-molecules over sodium-tellurium alloys.- Electronic states of Mn microclusters.- Magic numbers in SIMS of Mn similar to those of charged Ar clusters.- Structure of small rare earth clusters.- Generation of rare earth metal clusters by means of the gas-aggregation technique.- Neutral mass-selected lead cluster beams.- Studies of Sb and Bi clusters produced by laser desorption.- Linear and circular dichroism detection of magnetic torque on matrix isolated small manganese clusters.- Photo-induced inter-conversion reactions between atoms and small aggregates of chromium trapped in argon matrices.- Theory for the optical properties of small Hgn clusters.- On the transition from localized to delocalized electronic states in divalent-metal clusters.- Mercury clusters: jellium-like mass spectra and threshold laws for electron impact ionisation.- Partial photoionization cross sections of large mercury clusters and liquid mercury in the vacuum ultraviolet photon energy region.- Ultraviolet photoelectron studies of the molecules Se5, Se6, Se7 and Se8 with relevance to their geometrical structure.- Electronic structure of selenium- and tellurium-clusters.- Comparison between selenium and tellurium clusters.- Magnetic Properties.- Magnetic properties of free alkali and transition metal clusters.- Orbital magnetism in finite size systems.- Magnetic deflection of neutral metal clusters in a beam.- Symmetry and ferromagnetic clusters.- Magnetic properties of nm-sized iron crystallites and clusters embedded in vacuum-deposited MgO films.- Magnetic properties of 3d-transition-metal alloy clusters: (FexCr1?x)n.- Metallic susceptibility in a giant molecule: Pd561 Phen36O200.- Disappearance of long range spin-order in ultrafine magnetite particles.- Mössbauer spectroscopic characterization of ultrafine iron oxide and oxyhydroxide prepared by oxidative hydrolysis.- Structural and magnetic properties of Ba-ferrite fine particles grown by glass crystallization.- Imaging.- Electron transfer processes in scanning tunneling spectroscopy through small supported particles.- Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy for cluster and small particle research.- Atomic resolution electron microscopy of small metal clusters.- Ultra-fine particles of TiN.- Structure of supported palladium, silver and gold clusters.- Lattice defects in decahedral multiply twinned particles of palladium.- Growth mechanism of gold particles on A12O3 substrates.- Adhesion of small particles of palladium on A12O3 substrates.- A scanning tunneling microscope study of single platinum atoms, platinum dimers and trimers on highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite.- Scanning tunneling microscopy of sputtered aluminum particles.- Ultrafine particles adsorbed on HOPG measured by STM.- STM observation of Au fine-particles on graphite.- Adsorption and Chemical Properties.- Silicon clusters: chemistry and structure.- Gas phase reactivity of thermal metal clusters.- Adsorption -desorption kinetics on epitaxially oriented palladium clusters.- Gold clusters: reactions and deuterium uptake.- Reactivity and stability of bimetallic clusters.- Structure of the CO bond on supported Pd particles: influence of size and surface state.- Topological segregation in small bimetallic particles.- Dissociative chemisorption of D2 on a Ni13 cluster.- Chemical identification of icosahedral structure for cobalt and nickel clusters.- Adsorbate binding energies for ammonia on cobalt and nickel clusters.- Reactivity of positively charged cobalt cluster ions with CH4,N2,H2,C2H4, and C2H2.- Model study of the nonadiabatic effects in the interaction of atomic hydrogen with lithium metal clusters.- FTMS studies of sputtered metal cluster ions (IV): size-selective effects in the chemistry of Fen+ with NH3 and Pdn+ with D2 or C2H4.- The clustering reactions of Na+ and Pb+ with several important ligands.....- Silver-halogen cluster compounds AgnXm (n ? 2; 0 ? m ? n; X = F, Br).- Carbon Clusters.- How we came to produce C60-fullerite.- Thermionic emission from giant fullerenes.- The structure of small carbon clusters.- Is C4 bent?.- Structural stability and energetics of C, Si, and Ge microclusters: empirical many-body potential energy function calculation.- Evidence of linear chain for n? 10 carbon negative ion clusters revealed by mass selected photodetachment spectroscopy.- Cn carbon clusters (n = 4?6, 60, 70): interesting cases of computation/observation comparisons.- Electronic transitions in C60 and its ions.- Simulated annealing and collision properties of carbon clusters.- Structural properties of 3-dimensional carbon clusters.- Reaction of small carbon clusters with hydrogen during laser vaporization of graphite.- 2.- Stability and Electronic Structure of Nonmetallic Clusters.- Optical properties and electronic excitations of rare gas clusters.- Negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy of solvated electron cluster anions, (H2O)n- and (NH3)n-.- Electron transfer from state-selected Rydberg atoms to (N2O)m and (CF3Cl)mclusters.- Experimental (LMIS) and theoretical study of Sin Aump+ and GenAump+.- The photoionization dynamics of Ne clusters.- Theoretical study of the visible photodissociation spectrum of Ar3+.- TPEPICO studies near ionization threshold of argon and krypton clusters.- Photofragmentation and photoabsorption cross sections for mass selected argon cluster ions, n=3 to 108.- Electron energy loss spectroscopy of van-der-Waals clusters.- On the nature of bulk and surface excitations in argon clusters.- Rotationally resolved ultraviolet spectra of benzene-noble gas van der Waals clusters.- Stable shell structures in hydrogen-bonded complexes.- Theory for excess electrons in clusters of rare gas atoms.- Photoabsorption of sulfur dioxide cluster anions.- Surface induced ionization of neutral water clusters.- Spectroscopy of free sodium-ammonia clusters.- Photoelectron spectroscopy of negative ions solvated in clusters.- A REMPI study of solvation of small Hgn clusters by polar molecules.- Geometric and electronic structure of clusters.- Electronic structures and stabilities of GeCnand Ge2Cnin Hückel theory.- Compared electronic structures of negative ions MpCn- II. Transition metals in Hückel theory.- Metal carbide clusters formed by laser ablation of metal oxide-graphite systems..- Experimental and theoretical studies of the structure of alkali halide clusters.- Mass spectrometric study of MgO clusters produced by the gas aggregation technique.- Decay and Fragmentation.- Fragmentation of doubly charged noble metal clusters.- Systematics of evaporation.- Liquid drop model of multiply charged metal cluster fission.- The relation of cluster ion distributions to neutral cluster distributions in cluster beam experiments.- Evaporation rates of hot sodium clusters.- Evaporation of atoms from metal clusters.- Hot tungsten clusters: competition between atom ejection and thermionic emission.- Stability of Au22+ metastability through an excited state?.- On the stability of Pb -clusters.- Ejection, excitation and decomposition of large clusters from the surface of group II, III and IV elements by excimer laser excitation.- Collisional electron emission at solid surfaces induced by mass selected negative cluster ions.- Molecular dynamics calculation of the sticking coefficient of gases to surfaces.- On the structure and stability of Arnand Arn+ clusters at finite temperature.- Photofragmentation of clusters ions: the visible photoabsorption spectrum of Ar2N.- Metastable decay of Arn+ involving single monomer evaporation and the loss of peculiar numbers of monomers.- Frequencies of breathing vibrations of nearly spherical Ar clusters calculated by molecular dynamics.- Evaporation of Lennard-Jones clusters.- Is cluster evaporation statistical? A comparison of simulation results for Ar13 with exact classical phase space theory.- Energetics and structure in I2? (CO2)n clusters.- IR-photodissociation of size selected molecular clusters and their structures.- Fragmentation by electron impact ionization and intracluster reactions of size selected (N2H4)nand (OCS)n clusters.- Energy transfer rates in inhomogeneous van der Waals clusters.- Metastable decay and binding energies of van der Waals cluster ions.- Fragmentation dynamics of ammonia cluster ions after single photon ionisation.- Metastable dissociation dynamics of molecular cluster ions.- Production and stability of oxygen cluster cations and anions, revisited.- Cluster size effect on electron-induced luminescence.- Structural Phase Transitions and Quantum Clusters.- Isomer- and "phase"-selective spectroscopy of van der Waals solvent clusters..- Epitaxial clusters in single crystal hosts.- Quantum statistical effects in helium clusters.- Structure of small molecular hydrogen clusters.- Temperature jump induction of isomerization dynamics of alkali halide clusters.- Some aspects of dynamic chaos in small Lennard-Jones clusters.- Melting of gold microclusters.- Structural and dynamical properties of transition metal clusters.- Temperature-induced structural transitions and vibrational properties of microclusters: ab-initio molecular dynamics studies.- Microscopic solvation: spectroscopic results vs. Monte Carlo simulations.- Size effects in the solid phase transition of SF6 clusters.- Kinetics of phase changes in large molecular clusters.- Theory of the structural fluctuation of Au55 clusters.- Evidence of liquid state for small bismuth particles.- Melting of non-spherical ultrafine particles.- Size effect in 3Hen aggregates. A Gutzwiller approach.- Collective excitations of 3Hen clusters.- Small Particles and Transition to Bulk Properties.- The AC and DC conductivity in aggregates of ligand stabilized metal-cluster molecules.- Mesoscopic systems.- Spontaneous coalescence in ultrafine metal particle aggregates.- Optical plasmon losses in stabilized Au55 clusters.- Optical extinction on free, supported and embedded metal clusters.- Cluster matter: the transition of optical elastic scattering to regular reflection.- Small silver particles in glass surface layers produced by sodium-silver ion exchange-their concentration and size depth profile.- Aggregates of small silver particles in surface layers of glasses - electron microscopy and optical microspectroscopy.- Multifractal analysis of gas evaporated metal particle aggregates.- Optical properties of fractal clusters of small metallic particles.- Fractal analysis of the coalescence process of Au nano-meter particles dispersed in 2-propanol.- Low-temperature specific heat of the cluster compound Au55(P(C6H5)3)12Cl6.- NMR in metal cluster compounds compared to glasses.- Superconducting lead cluster films with particle size dependent reduction of Tc.- Effective dielectric functions of samples obtained by evaporation of alkali halides.- Linear and nonlinear optical studies of CdS1?xSexquantum dots.- An atomic-scale model of fcccrystal-growth.- Some problems concerning the definition of a dividing surface and its influence on the calculation of thermodynamical parameters of small clusters.- Particle size effects of clusters and crystallites.- Localization in small fcc-particles with surface irregularities and disorder.- Molecular statistical description of small thermodynamic systems:problems and possibilities.- Nanocrystals grown in amorphous Cr and CrNi thin films.- Identification of diluted small defect clusters in silicon by electron paramagnetic resonance.- Photoemission on gold-55-clusters derived from gold-phosphine AUP(C6H5)3Cl.- Optical spectra and laser-induced dissociation of supported Na particles.- Electronic structure of deposited monosized metal-clusters.- Electronic structure of Cr clusters on graphite.- Synchrotron radiation study of silver and chromium particles supported on graphite.- Cluster Formation and Technical Developments.- Lognormal distribution as the natural statistics of cluster systems.- Nucleation and condensation to a single equilibrium cluster regime in a Monte Carlo experiment.- Spectroscopic study on the crystal growth in gas evaporation: emission and absorption spectra from Cu smoke.- High resolution MW spectroscopy of Rydberg clusters for the studies of small metal cluster ions: a preliminary experiment.- Production of "cold/hot" metal cluster ions: a modified laser vaporization source.- A new type of cluster and cluster ion source.- The pulsed arc cluster ion source (PACIS).- Large clusters of cesium from pure vapor expansions.- Formation of silver clusters in nozzle expansions.- Cluster generation in expansions of pure water vapour and of mixtures with carbon dioxide.- A supersonic beam ion cyclotron resonance instrument for the study of van der Waals cluster ions.- An improved laser vaporization cluster source and time-of-flight mass spectrometer.- Cluster isobars for high-precision mass spectrometry.- Nucleation and particle growth in the preparation of silica-supported nickel catalysts by a two-step procedure.- The kinetics of condensation behind the shock front.- Molecular kinetics of cluster formation in the dense fluids.- An electron diffraction apparatus for small particle beams.- Evidence for the direct ejection of clusters from alkali-halides during laser vaporization.- Concluding remarks.- Index Part 1.- Index Part 2.