Physics and Chemistry of Small Clusters

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Metal Cluster Ion Beams....Pages 1-14
Atomic Structure of Small Clusters : The Why and How of the Five-Fold Symmetry....Pages 15-24
Study of Production Technique for Metallic Ultra Fine Particles Using Arc Energy....Pages 25-30
Electron Diffraction Study of Supersonically Generated Clusters....Pages 31-36
Control over the Structure of Clusters Generated in Supersonic Flow....Pages 37-42
Annealing of Fine Powders: Initial Shapes and Grain Boundary Motion....Pages 43-48
Continuous Mass Selected Cluster Ion Production using a Liquid Metal Ion Source....Pages 49-54
Dangling Bonds Reconstruction at the Core of a 90° Partial Dislocation in Silicon: A Theoretical Study....Pages 55-59
Isolation of Monodispersed Gold Clusters of Controlled Size....Pages 61-65
Structures of C 5 and C 6 ....Pages 67-72
The Structure of Small Gold Crystals....Pages 73-78
Graph Theory Derived Methods for the Study of Metal Cluster Bonding Topology: Applications to Post-Transition Metal Clusters....Pages 79-82
Laser Vaporization and Photoionization Studies of Tin and Lead Clusters....Pages 83-87
Laser Vaporization and Photoionization of Group IV and V Intermetallic Clusters....Pages 89-93
A Theoretical Study of Carbon Clusters: Equilibrium Geometries and Electronic Structures of C n ....Pages 95-101
Multiphoton Stimulated Desorption: The Geometrical Structure of Neutral Sodium Chloride Clusters....Pages 103-108
Mass and Temperature Measurement in Pure Vapor Expansion of Metals and Semi-Metals....Pages 109-114
Fine Structure of Mass Spectrum of Sodium Clusters: Giant-Atom Concept....Pages 115-120
The Xα(R) Method: A Semi-Empirical Method with α Varying with the Internuclear Distance....Pages 121-126
Atomic Resolution Study of Structural Rearrangements in Metal Clusters....Pages 127-132
A Fragment Cluster Study of Polyacetylene....Pages 133-137
An Approximate Ab-Initio Theory of Metal Clusters....Pages 139-144
Alkali Clusters: Structure, Stability, Large Amplitude Motion and Chemical Properties....Pages 145-149
A Unified Explanation of Magic Numbers in Small Clusters....Pages 151-155
A Molecular Dynamics Study of Silicon Clusters....Pages 157-168
Electron Localization and Excitation Dynamics in Small Clusters....Pages 169-184
Melting and Freezing of Microclusters....Pages 185-191
Structure and Melting of Argon Clusters on a Substrate....Pages 193-197
Dynamics of Atomic Collisions on Helium Clusters....Pages 199-200
Isomerization and Melting of Small Alkali-Halide Clusters....Pages 201-206
Steepest-Descent Quenches and the Melting of Microclusters....Pages 207-212
Photofragmentation and Stability in Semiconductor Microcluster Ions....Pages 213-218
Atomic and Electronic Structures of Semiconductor Clusters....Pages 219-233
Magic Numbers of Alkali Halide Clusters....Pages 235-247
Spectroscopy of Na 3 and Experiments on Size-Selected Metal Cluster Ions....Pages 249-252
Density Functional Calculation of the Fragmentation of Neutral, Singly and Doubly-Ionized Spherical Jellium-Like Metallic Microparticles....Pages 253-261
Experiments on Sputtered Clusters as Probe of Metal Cluster Ion Stability....Pages 263-267
Velocity Measurements of Bismuth Clusters : Velocity Slip and Fragmentation Processes....Pages 269-275
Fragmentation of Silicon Microclusters....Pages 277-281
Spectroscopic Investigation of Ag-Metal Clusters....Pages 283-288
Photofragmentation of Mass-Selected Main Group Element Cations....Pages 289-292
Desorption and Decomposition of Multiply Charged Clusters from the Crystal of Group IV Elements by Laser Excitation....Pages 293-298
Energy of Formation for Small Molecular Clusters: (H 2 O) n ....Pages 299-304
Energy Redistribution and Cluster Stability....Pages 305-310
Fragmentation of Neutral and Ionic Carbon Clusters....Pages 311-316
Production of Cluster Ions by Laser Vaporization....Pages 317-322
From Metal Clusters to Cluster Metals....Pages 323-328
Thermal Stability of Micro-Clusters....Pages 329-333
Measurement of Bi 2 and Bi 4 Electron Impact Fragmentation Using Magnetic Polarization....Pages 335-340
Metastable Decay of Photoionized Niobium Clusters: Evaporation vs. Fission Fragmentation....Pages 341-346
ESR of Small Clusters....Pages 347-352
Structure of Homo- and Hetero-Nuclear Micro-Clusters....Pages 353-367
Stability of Small Metallic Clusters : Conceptual and Computational Challenges....Pages 369-382
Self-Consistent Calculation of the Collective Excitations of Small Jellium Spheres....Pages 383-393
Magnetic Properties of Molecular Metal Clusters....Pages 395-400
Electronic Properties of Water Clusters by an Effective Hamiltonian Treatment....Pages 401-406
An Ab-Initio Study of the Interaction of Atomic Hydrogen with Lithium Clusters....Pages 407-412
The EPR Spectrum of Na 3 in Adamantane....Pages 413-419
Electronic Structure and Properties of Small Be-Clusters....Pages 421-429
Jahn-Teller Distortion, Hund’s Coupling and Metastability in Alkali Tetramers....Pages 431-434
Electronic Structure of Small Carbon, Silicon, and Germanium Clusters....Pages 435-438
Periodic Anderson Model for Small Clusters....Pages 439-444
Electronic Theory of Segregation in Small Bimetallic Clusters....Pages 445-450
Theoretical Cluster Model of a Zn-C Reformatsky Intermediate....Pages 451-456
Calculation of the Magnetic Properties of Small Fe-Clusters....Pages 457-461
Discussion of the Size Dependence of Ionization Threshold Energy of Fe-Clusters....Pages 463-466
Self-Interaction-Corrected Calculation of the Static Polarizability of Small Metal Spheres....Pages 467-471
ESR and Electron Spin Relaxation Time T 1 of be Small Particles....Pages 473-478
Electronic States and Geometrical Structures of Hubbard Clusters with an Impurity....Pages 479-484
Theoretical Predictions of the Vibrational Frequencies of Singlet Li 4 ....Pages 485-491
Evaporation of Metal Clusters....Pages 493-498
Analysis of the Basis Set Dependency on the Electronic Structure of Nb 2 ....Pages 499-504
Analysis of the Electronic Properties of Small Niobium Clusters....Pages 505-509
Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (LAPW) Method for Isolated Clusters and Molecules....Pages 511-516
The Nickel Dimer and Trimer....Pages 517-521
Inelastic Light Scattering from Metal Clusters: Some Recent Developments....Pages 523-530
Optical and Infrared Properties of Small Metal Particles....Pages 531-545
Cluster Spectroscopy: Variations in Ionization Potentials and Spectral Shifts as a Function of Degree of Aggregation and Studies of Cluster Fragmentation....Pages 547-563
Trapping Sites and Vibrational Modes of Ag 2 in Rare Gas Matrices: A Computer Simulation....Pages 565-582
Laser-Induced Fluorescence and Raman Investigations of Ag n ( n ≥4) by Means of Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy....Pages 583-588
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Molecular Clusters: N 2 and N 2 O....Pages 589-593
Multipolar Excitations in Small Metallic Spheres....Pages 595-600
Theory of Damping of Excited States of a Molecule Near a Metallic Cluster....Pages 601-604
Photoinduced Aggregation and Dissociation of Ag and Au Clusters in Rare Gas Matrices....Pages 605-609
Magneto-Optical Investigation of Mn and Cu-Mn Small Clusters Embedded in Rare Gas Matrices....Pages 611-616
Multiply Charged Clusters....Pages 617-622
Collisional Electron Transfer to Neutral Clusters by High-Rydberg Rare Gas Atoms....Pages 623-638
Solvation of Alkali Halides in Alcohol Clusters....Pages 639-651
On the Electronic Structure of a Singly Ionized Cluster Composed of Closed Shell Atoms Or Molecules....Pages 653-666
Unimolecular Decay of Small NH 3 Cluster Ions....Pages 667-673
Electronic Spectra and Electronic Relaxation in Mercury Van Der Waals Complexes Studied in a Supersonic Jet....Pages 675-680
The Thermodynamics of Mixed Solvent Cluster Ions: K + (CH 3 OH) n (H 2 O) m ....Pages 681-686
Electron Attachment to Van der Waals Clusters....Pages 687-691
An Effective Hamiltonian Study of Molecular Clusters....Pages 693-698
Kinetics of Cluster Formation During Rapid Quenching....Pages 699-704
Cluster Imaging....Pages 705-712
Gas-Phase Chemical Reactions of Transition Metal Clusters with Simple Molecules....Pages 713-726
Metal Clusters: Size Dependent Chemical and Electronic Properties....Pages 727-739
Activation and Chemisorption of Hydrogen on Aluminum Clusters....Pages 741-754
Unenhanced Ramen Spectroscopy of CO Adsorbed on Nickel Particles....Pages 755-768
The Surface Chemistry of Osmium Carbonyl Clusters Supported on Silica : An XPS Investigation....Pages 769-773
Chemistry of Small Metal Cluster Ions....Pages 775-780
Reactions of Diatomic and Triatomic Metal Clusters of Iron and Copper with Dihydrogen in Inert Matrices....Pages 781-786
Molecular Beam Relaxation Spectroscopy Applied to Adsorption Kinetics on Small Supported Catalyst Particles....Pages 787-794
Physical Properties of High-Nuclearity Metal Cluster Compounds....Pages 795-800
Infrared Matrix-Investigations of the Interaction of Oxygen with Iron Atoms and Aggregates....Pages 801-806
On the Dispersion and Characteristics of Platinum-Tin Bimetallic Clusters....Pages 807-812
Behaviour of Platinum and Palladium Microclusters on Alumina Support Films....Pages 813-817
Structure of Metal Clusters — A High Resolution Electron Microscopy Study of Osmium Clusters on Magnesium Oxide....Pages 819-824
Reactivity of Size-Selected Silicon Clusters as Studied by Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry....Pages 825-830
Theoretical Investigation of Surface Relaxation Effects on Chemisorption of Atomic Oxygen on Aluminum Clusters....Pages 831-836
The Study of Interactions between Iron Particles Encapsulated in Zeolites of the Faujasit-Type and the Matrix....Pages 837-842
Role of Ensembles in Catalysis by Metals....Pages 843-848
Cluster Calculations for Diffusion on and in Transition Metals....Pages 849-854
Local Density Models for Bare and Ligated Transition Metal Clusters....Pages 855-866
Activation of C-H and C-C Bonds in Alkanes by Heterodinuclear Metal Cluster Ions in the Gas Phase....Pages 867-879
Dissociations of Manganese Carbonyl Cluster Ions....Pages 881-890
d Band of Nickel Clusters on Si0 2 Amorphous Substrate : Electron Spectroscopies and Reactivity....Pages 891-896
In Situ EXAFS Studies of Small Fe Particles Used as Catalysts for NH 3 Synthesis....Pages 897-902
Current Views on Astrochemistry....Pages 903-907
Back Matter....Pages 909-914
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