We present total-energy, force, and electronic-structure calculations for Na and K adsorbed in various geometries on an A1(111) surface. The calculations apply density-functional theory together with… (More)
Heating of a ruthenium surface on which carbon monoxide and atomic oxygen are coadsorbed leads exclusively to desorption of carbon monoxide. In contrast, excitation with femtosecond infrared laser… (More)
Surface energies for different GaAs surface orientations have been calculated as a function of the chemical potential. We use an energy density formalism within the first-principles pseudopotential… (More)
We report that calculating the Gibbs free energy of the alpha-Al2O3 (0001) surfaces in equilibrium with a realistic environment containing both oxygen and hydrogen species is essential for obtaining… (More)
The formation of chemisorbed O phases on Ru(0001) by exposure to O 2 at low pressures is apparently limited to coveragesQ # 0.5. Using low-energy electron diffraction and density-functional theory we… (More)
The potential-energy surface ~PES! of dissociative adsorption of H 2 on Pd~100! is investigated using density-functional theory and the full-potential linear augmented plane-wave method. Several… (More)
Recent experiments performed at high gas partial pressures indicate that ruthenium can support unusually high concentrations of oxygen at the surface. To investigate the structure and stability of… (More)
Using density-functional theory we identify a new low-energy structure for GaAs(001) in an As-poor environment. The discovered geometry is qualitatively different from the usual surface-dimer based… (More)