Physisorption Kinetics

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Adsorption Phenomena: a Brief Survey.- 1.2 Survey of Experimental Methods.- 2. Gas-Solid Interaction.- 2.1 The Static Surface Potential Vs(r).- 2.2 Mean-Field Surface Potential at Finite Coverage.- 2.3 The Dynamic Atom-Solid Interaction.- 2.4 Phonon Dynamics of a Solid.- 2.5 The Gas-Solid Hamiltonian.- 3. The Master Equation.- 3.1 The Mesoscopic Approach to the Master Equation.- 3.2 The Master Equation for Physisorption Kinetics.- 3.3 The Microscopic Approach to the Master Equation.- 3.4 The Master Equation at Finite Coverage.- 4. Transition Probabilities in the Master Equation.- 4.1 One-phonon Processes at Low Coverage.- 4.2 Multi-phonon Processes and Correlation Functions.- 4.3 Soft Cube Model and Phenomenological Models at Low Coverage.- 4.4 Mean-Field Theory at Finite Coverage.- 5. Desorption Times.- 5.1 Model System with Two Bound States.- 5.2 Systems with a Few Shallow Bound States.- 5.3 Perturbation Theory of the Master Equation.- 5.4 Desorption Kinetics Mediated by Surface Phonons.- 5.5 Inclusion of Parallel Phonon Momentum for Mobile Desorption.- 5.6 Desorption from a Localized Adsorbate.- 5.7 Cole-Toigo Corrections.- 5.8 Multiphonon Contributions.- 5.9 Multilayer Desorption.- 5.10 Adsorbent Cooling in Thermal Desorption.- 5.11 Flash Desorption and Thermalization.- 6. Time of Flight Spectra.- 6.1 Experiments.- 6.2 Flux of Desorbed Particles.- 6.3 One-phonon Processes.- 6.4 Classical Models.- 7. Sticking and Accommodation.- 7.1 Experimental Results.- 7.2 Theory.- 8. Kramers Equation.- 8.1 Derivation from the Master Equation.- 8.2 Macroscopic Laws.- 8.3 Friction Coefficient.- 8.4 Hydrodynamics of Adsorption.- 9. Summary and Outlook.- 9.1 Progress and Problems.- 9.2 Related Topics I: Photodesorption.- 9.3 Related Topics II: Electron-Stimulated Desorption.- 9.4 Approaches to Chemisorption Kinetics.- References.