Work Function and Bonding Energy of Rare-Gas Atoms Adsorbed on Metals
- 9 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (6), 447-449
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.46.447
Abstract
It is shown that the substantial bonding-energy and work-function changes associated with inert gases adsorbed on metal surfaces arise from an admixture of polar excited configurations that occurs as the excited-state charge-transfer instability is crossed.Keywords
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