The extensive data available for He and Ne beam elastic scattering from Cu surfaces are analysed by full quantum mechanical calculations and by describing the atom-surface interaction potential according to the present knowledge on van der Waals pair potentials. It is shown that Ne penetrates the surface electron cloud much deeper than He and that the ratio of Ne-to-He adsorption energies exceeds the ratio of the atomic polarizabilities.

Interaction of He and Ne with Cu surfaces

L Floreano;A Morgante;
1997

Abstract

The extensive data available for He and Ne beam elastic scattering from Cu surfaces are analysed by full quantum mechanical calculations and by describing the atom-surface interaction potential according to the present knowledge on van der Waals pair potentials. It is shown that Ne penetrates the surface electron cloud much deeper than He and that the ratio of Ne-to-He adsorption energies exceeds the ratio of the atomic polarizabilities.
1997
Istituto Officina dei Materiali - IOM -
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