[Wed-B2] Surface Science

[Wed-B2-6] Tracking microscopic pathways to molecule's thermalization upon encounter with a metal surface

*Igor Rahinov¹, Dmitriy Borodin^2,3, Pranav Shirhatti⁴, Meng Huang⁵, Alexander Kandratsenka³, Daniel Auerbach³, Tianli Zhong^2,3, Hua Guo⁵, Dirk Schwarzer³, Theofanis Kitsopoulos^2,3,6,7, Alec Wodtke^2,3,8 (1. The Open University of Israel (Israel), 2. Georg-August University of Göttingen (Germany), 3. Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Germany), 4. Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (India), 5. University of New Mexico (United States of America), 6. University of Crete (Greece), 7. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH (Greece), 8. International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen (Germany))

Keywords:Adsorption, Desorption, Chemisorption, Physisorption, Molecular beam scattering, Pump-probe, Vibrational Relaxation, Density Functional Theory