Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters

Spectroscopy.- Multiple ionization and Coulomb explosion of mercury clusters in femtosecond laser fields.- Photoelectron spectroscopy of silicon- and germanium-fluorine binary cluster anions (SinFm-, GenFm-).- Spectroscopy of non-stoichiometric sodium-fluoride clusters NanFn-1; infrared spectral signature and classification.- Analysis of optical absorption spectra of transition metal cluster ions by the spin-polarized DV-X? method.- Photoelectron spectroscopy of transition metal-sulfur cluster anions.- Fluorescence excitation spectroscopy of xenon doped neon clusters: size and site effects, and cluster melting.- Femtosecond wave packet dynamics in alkali trimers.- Isotopically resolved $$ \widetilde{B} \leftarrow \widetilde{X} $$ electronic spectrum of Ag3 and calculation of its Jahn-Teller effects.- Small silicon oxide clusters: chains and rings.- Resonant two-photon ionization spectra of o, p, m-xyleneArn (n =1, 2).- Transient absorption study on photodarkened CdSxSe1-x doped glasses: evidence for long lived trapping states.- Ultrafast dynamics in excited ammonia dimers and trimers.- Heterogeneous Clusters and Their Reactions.- Dynamic solvation effects on surface-impact dissociation of I2-(CO2)n.- Rigid or floppy water-containing dipole-bound dimer anions.- Chemiionization upon reaction of sodium clusters with molecular oxygen.- Structures and stabilities of 3d-transition metal-benzene organometallic clusters.- Electron attachment to oxygen and oxygen/ozone clusters tudied in a high-resolution crossed beams experiment.- Reaction dynamics of Nan+ in collision with molecular oxygen.- Fragmentation of (NH3)n+ cluster ions.- Structural characterization of catalytically active metal clusters in polymer membranes.- Experimental Methods.- Size-dependent core-level spectroscopy of free neutral clusters.- Generation, analysis, and deposition of silicon nanocrystals up to 10 nm in diameter.- Comparison between positive and negative charging of helium droplets.- Novel metal cluster complexes synthesized by matrix deposition of mass-selected clusters.- Observation of doubly charged mercury cluster ions Hgn2+, n=l-10 using secondary ion mass spectrometry.- Formation of antimony oxide clusters by gas aggregation.- Radiative cooling of free metal clusters.- Surface induced reactions of cluster ions.- Formation of alumina fine particles by a magnetron sputtering as aggregation method.- Spontaneous and infrared induced electron detachment from negatively charged helium nanodroplets.- Frequency and field dependent conductivity in Pd-based metal clustercompounds.- Silver-palladium alloyed clusters synthesized by radiolysis.- Production and characterization of thermally-annealed large clusters by high-pressure laser-vaporization technique.- Thermodynamic properties of nm-sized Pd and Ni particles.- Spontaneous alloying of gold clusters into nanometer-sized antimony clusters.- In situ observation of spontaneous alloying of antimony into nm-sized indium clusters by optical absorption spectroscopy.- Cluster beams from passivated nanocrystals.- Magnetism.- Nitrogen chemisorption on ?-Fe nanoparticles studied by in situ Mssbauer spectroscopy.- Magnetic interactions in transition metal clusters embedded in matrices prepared by LECBD technique.- Thermal properties of ferromagnetic clusters.- Possible large magnetic moments in 4d transition metal clusters.- Nanocrystallinity induced by heating.- Synthesis, crystal structures and magnetic properties of Co particles encapsulated in carbon nanocapsules.- Properties of small antiferromagnetic Ising clusters.- Theory.- Pseudopotential approach of the electronic structure in clusters: application to alkali halides and rare gases.- First principles calculation of the dipole moments of small mixed Ge/Te semiconductor clusters.- The implication of topology for protein structure and aggregation.- Temperature measurement from scattering spectra of clusters: theoretical treatment.- Surveying a potential