Molecular Science
Online ISSN : 1881-8404
ISSN-L : 1881-8404
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Cluster Impact onto Solid Surfaces
From Wedge Effect to Monatomic-Layered Clusters
Hisato Yasumatsu
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2008 Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages A0020

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'Cluster impact', collision of a cluster onto a solid surface, induces specific many-body phenomena leading to splitting of a chemical bond by impulsive force, quasi-equilibrium at temporal ultrahigh temperature and pressure, formation of monatomic-layered clusters on a solid surface, etc. Specificities of the cluster impact originate from many-body multiple collision, which results in localization of energies within hundreds femtoseconds and subsequent formation of the quasi-equilibrium in the following several to tens picoseconds. This account presents essence of such a new field of science in combination with tailored instrumentation for the cluster impact.

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