Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997 Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters · ISSPIC 8 Copenhagen, Denmark, 1–6 July 1996

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-xylene…Arn (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 Mössbauer 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 energy surface by eigenvector-following. Applications to global optimisation and the structural transformations of clusters.- Theoretical description of the decay of hot charged alkali metal clusters.- Ab initio model potential and molecular dynamics simulation of Ag6 clusters.- Theoretical study of chemisorption on niobium clusters: carbon monoxide and oxygen.- Signatures of critical phenomena in rare atom clusters.- Analogues in clusters of second-order transitions?.- The Jellium-Atom quasimolecular model for the investigation of charge transfer in alkali-cluster-ion/alkali-atom interactions: the Na19+/Na system.- Diffuseness of the surface and surface vibrations of a 4He droplet.- Comparison of reaction pathways calculated by different algorithms for disilane and water trimer.- Packing of protein structures in clusters with magic numbers.- Collective Modes.- Softening the long-wavelength electromagnetic response of finite quantal systems.- Optical response of cesium coated C60.- The collective response of deformed sodium clusters.- Plasmon profiles and deformations of sodium clusters in the 1g-shell.- Optical response of Ag clusters.- Electron response of metallic clusters to strong laser pulses and energetic ion collisions.- Large sodium clusters in an electrostatic field.- Shells and Size Quantization.- On the role of classical orbits in mesoscopic electronic systems.- Nanowires: size evolution, reversibility, and one-atom contacts.- Unimolecular dissociation of trivalent metal cluster ions (Aln+, Gan+, Inn+): evidence for a transition from covalent to metallic bonding.- Main features of electronic momentum distribution in sodium clusters.- Influence of the ion-pseudopotential on the electronic shell structure and the dipole strength distribution in metal clusters.- Metal clusters on an inert surface: a simple model.- Jahn-Teller deformations of jellium slices.- Ionic and electronic structure of metal clusters.- Fragmentation and Fission.- Excitation and fragmentation of highly charged metal clusters in collisions with ions.- Collision induced fragmentation of small sodium cluster ions.- Fragmentation of clusters induced by collision with a solid surface: comparison of antimony and bismuth cluster ions.- Photofragmentation of Ag4(N2)n+, x=0-3: N2 binding energies.- Fission of multiply charged alkaline earth metal clusters.- Global potential-energy surface for surface-charged clusters.- Low-energy decay pathways of doubly charged silver clusters Agn2+(n=9-24).- Fragmentation of large ionized clusters of rare gas atoms.- Time resolved photofragmentation of Aun+ and Agn+ clusters (n=9, 21).- Fullerenes.- Transition metal coated fullerenes.- Photoexcited C60: fragmentation and delayed ionization.- Stability of clusters of fullerenes.- Carbon clusters in a storage ring.- Electron detachment and fragmentation in collisions between 50 keV Cn-(1?n?86) clusters and H2.- Giant resonances in atoms, atomic clusters, fullerenes, condensed media, and nuclei.- Quantum transition theory and dynamics of ionic molecule formation in cluster collisions.- Thermal behaviour of carbon clusters and small fullerenes.- Electron impact ionization and dissociation of neutral and charged fullerenes.- The structures of small clusters of C60 molecules.- Charge transfer collisions between fullerenes: C603++C60.- A kinetic model of carbon clusters growth.- Time-of-flight mass and photoelectron spectroscopy study of LaCn-.- Photoionization/fragmentation of endohedral fullerenes.- Towards the selective formation of specific isomers of fullerenes: T- and p-dependence in the yield of various isomers of fullerenes C60-C84.- Carbon Nanotubes.- Carbon nanotubes films: electronic properties and their application as field emitters.- Growth of single-layer carbon tubes assisted with iron-group metal catalysts in carbon arc.- EELS investigation of plasmon excitations in aluminum nanospheres and carbon nanotubes.- Electronic and magnetic properties in mesoscopic tubule and permanent current.- Conductance of nano-tube junctions and its scaling law.- Structural Properties.- Evolution of the metallicity in the LinHm clusters as a function of m: evidence for a segregation.- Ab-initio study of optical response properties of nonstoichiometric lithium-hydride and sodium-fluoride clusters with one- and two-excess electrons.- Ab-initio study of structural and optical properties of nonstoichiometric alkalimetal-oxides.- Ionization potentials and geometrical structure of pure and oxygenated barium clusters.- 1/f-noise in metallic clusters.- Neon scattering off Sodium clusters at finite temperatures.- Temperature dependence of the single-particle spectrum in sodium clusters.- Thermally-induced surface reconstructions of Mackay icosahedra.- Hydrogen induced melting of Palladium clusters.- First-principle molecular dynamics calculation of selenium clusters.- Ion mobility measurements of metal halide clusters.- Structure, stability, and vibrational properties of small silver cluster.- Computational studies of small (AIP)N clusters.- Ab-initio molecular dynamics based on non-local density functional procedure with Gaussian basis; study of structural and temperature behaviour of metallic clusters.- Electronic properties of isolated Ga N AsM clusters: photoionization-, photodissociation- and photoluminescence quantum yields.- Monte Carlo simulation of order-disorder transformation in nano particles of Cu3Au alloy.- Diffusion processes and growth on aluminum cluster surfaces.- Structural evolution of larger gold clusters.- Clusters on Surfaces.- Halo-like structures studied by atomic force microscopy.- Hierarchical organization in aggregates of protein molecules.- Mobility and aggregation of free clusters soft landed on amorphous and crystalline carbon substrates.- Structure of inorganic nanoclusters embedded in solid matrixes: an X-ray absorption study.- Scaling in patterns produced by cluster deposition.- Collisional dynamics of Ag19 on Pd(100): a molecular dynamics study.- Structural phase stability of Se clusters in zeolites.- Structural anomaly of fine bismuth particles observed by ultra high-vacuum TEM.- Self-assembly of magnetic nanostructures.- Ionization of water clusters by collision with surface.- Formation and characterization of quasi-free clusters.- Electronic properties of Cu clusters and islands and their reaction with O2 on SnO2(110) surfaces.- Cluster-based Materials.- Cluster assembled thin films of covalent materials.- NMR in powders and single crystals of the metal-alloy cluster [HNi38Pt6(CO)48]5-.- Network structure of fine silica particles.- EXAFS study of functionalized nanoclusters and nanocluster assemblies.- Magnetic properties of transition metal films and islands on W(l10).- Gold and platinum molecular cluster compounds studied by 197Au Mössbauer Spectroscopy.