Wiley, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 20(51), p. 4954-4958, 2012
Wiley, Angewandte Chemie, 20(124), p. 5038-5042, 2012
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Surface phenomena: measurements of absolute probabilities are reported for the vibrational excitation of NO(v=0→1,2) molecules scattered from a Au(111) surface. These measurements were quantitatively compared to calculations based on ab initio theoretical approaches to electronically nonadiabatic molecule-surface interactions. Good agreement was found between theory and experiment (see picture; T(s) =surface temperature, P=excitation probability, and E=incidence energy of translation).