Ebook: Microclusters: Proceedings of the First NEC Symposium, Hakone and Kawasaki, Japan, October 20–23, 1986

This volume contains the proceedings of the first in a series of biennial NEC Symposia on Fundamental Approaches to New Material Phases sponsored by the NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. The symposium was held Octo­ ber 20-22, 1986, at Hakone Kanko Hotel in Hakone near Mt. Fuji, and on October 23 at NEC Laboratories in Kawasaki, Japan. About 40 partic­ ipants stayed together at the symposium sites during this period. They enjoyed intense and wide-ranging discussions in a conference room facing Mt. Fuji and the beautiful lake Ashinoko extending from the foot of the slope in the old crater. The title of the volume, Microclusters, means microscopic aggregates consisting of a few tens through a few hundreds of atoms. Microclusters, which are too big to be described as inorganic molecules but too small to have translational symmetry, are expected to show exotic properties which can be found in neither molecules nor solids. In the past few years the research field of microclusters has shown rapid and epoch-making de­ velopment. This is partly due to rapid development of the experimental techniques which have enabled the production of relatively dense, non­ interacting microclusters of various sizes in the form of cluster beams, thus allowing measurement of the properties of a free microcluster of a given size.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Shell Structure in Clusters....Pages 2-9
SIMS Experiments on Metal Cluster Ions....Pages 10-16
Stability of Alkali Metal Clusters....Pages 17-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Electron Correlations and Chemical Bonding in Aggregates — a Simplified Approach....Pages 26-36
Phenomenological and Microscopic Theories of Structure....Pages 37-46
Electronic Structure of Microclusters....Pages 47-53
Electronic Structure of Small Clusters....Pages 54-62
Electronic Structure, Cohesion, and Effective Interatomic Potentials in Small Transition Metal Particles....Pages 63-69
Force Calculation in Density Functional and Muffin-Tin Orbital Framework....Pages 70-75
The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Clusters....Pages 76-81
Theoretical Study of the Electronic Structure of CO Adsorbed on Small Cu Clusters....Pages 82-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Optical and Dynamical Properties of Metal Clusters....Pages 88-95
Molecular Surfaces: Chemistry and Physics of Gas Phase Clusters....Pages 96-106
Multiphoton Ionization of Sodium Halide Clusters....Pages 107-114
Dynamical Aspects of Molecular Clusters Studied by Multiphoton Ionization Technique....Pages 115-120
Production of Metal Clusters by Nozzle Beam Expansion and Analysis by TOF Mass Spectrometry....Pages 121-126
Size Dependence of Photoluminescence in CdSe Clusters....Pages 127-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Equilibrium Structures and Dynamical Processes in Microclusters....Pages 134-141
Many Body Effects on Static and Dynamical Properties of Si, C, and K Microclusters....Pages 142-151
Front Matter....Pages 152-160
Theoretical Study on Photodissociation Processes of Lithium Metal Microclusters....Pages 133-133
Ionization of Clusters in Collision with High-Rydberg Excited Rare Gas Atoms....Pages 161-166
Theory of Electron Attachment of Van der Waals Microclusters....Pages 167-173
Time Evolution of Electronic States in Microclusters....Pages 174-179
Front Matter....Pages 180-184
Some Experiments on Structural Instability of Small Particles of Metals....Pages 185-185
Melting and Freezing of Microclusters from Analytics and Simulations....Pages 186-199
Dynamics of Transition-Metal Clusters....Pages 200-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-217
Energy-Level Statistics of Metal Particles....Pages 219-219
Cluster Reaction from the Viewpoint of Nuclear Reaction....Pages 220-225
Stability of a Charged Small Particle Against Surface Shape Fluctuations....Pages 226-231
Front Matter....Pages 232-236
Production and Photofragmentation of Semiconductor Clusters and Cluster Ions....Pages 237-237
Dynamical Characteristics of Laser Vaporization Process in Group IV Elements....Pages 238-248
Localized Orbital Approach to Carbon Clusters....Pages 249-256
Electronic and Structural Theory of Group-IV Microclusters....Pages 257-262
Effects of Electrostatic Field on the Electronic Structure of Microclusters....Pages 263-268
Quantum Box: Gallium Arsenide Microclusters Embedded in Aluminum Arsenide....Pages 269-274
Electronic Structure of the Superatom....Pages 275-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-286
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