Screening of Intermolecular Forces in Adsorbates

• Authors: J. Mahanty
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The interaction potential of a pair of adsorbed molecules differ from that of the same molecules in free space, because of the response of the substrate. This response does not influence much the short-range repulsive part of the potential; only the long-range attractive part is affected. The change due to the influence of the substrate has been the subject of extensive study, both theoretically and experimentally. In this paper the problem is formulated in terms of the dynamic charge response properties of the interacting pair, and applications to the case of adsorbed molecules on model metal surfaces is described.

Keywords

EN

82.65.-i; 68.90.+g

Discipline

• 68.90.+g: Other topics in structure, and nonelectronic properties of surfaces and interfaces; thin films and low-dimensional structures (restricted to new topics in section 68)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1992
• Volume: 81
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 73-84

Dates

published

1992-01

received

1991-05-21

Contributors

author

J. Mahanty

• Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences & Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.81.73