Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters

Formation.- The smoke ion source: a device for the generation of cluster ions via inert gas condensation.- Electron diffraction studies of pulsed cluster beams.- Equilibrium intermetallic particles in the gas phase-A Knudsen cell mass spectrometric study.- Neutralization and matrix deposition experiments on mass-selected silver atoms and clusters.- Palladium particles growth on various aluminas.- Comparison between the growth of gold particles onto MgO and amorphous carbon substrates by in situ electrical conductance measurements.- Morphology determination of small particles by electron microscopy and electrical conduction measurements.- Size-dependent thermodynamic properties of silver aggregates. Simulation of the photographic development process.- Sodium clusters in zeolites.- Minimal spanning tree analysis of regular, random and cluster structures.- Atomic Structure.- On the structure and stability of small metal particles: high-resolution UHV electron microscope study.- A group theoretical paradigm for describing the skeletal molecular orbitals of cluster compounds. Part 3.- Theoretical studies on carbon and silicon clusters: comparison of the structures and stabilities of neutral and ionic forms.- Quantum mechanics and the structure of noble-gas clusters.- Binding energy of large icosahedral and cuboctahedral Lennard-Jones clusters.- Energy barriers and structural transitions of small Al clusters.- Model potential for beryllium clusters.- Structure and dynamics of Lennard-Jones clusters with impurities.- Stability of relaxed Lennard-Jones models made of 500 to 6000 atoms.- Description of metallic and covalent clusters with icosahedral symmetry: the polytope model.- Structural transition in SF6 clusters.- Electron diffraction on unsupported ultrafine silver particles.- Structure of Ag, Fe and Ge microclusters.- Structure investigation of multiply-twinned Ni particles by electron investigation.- Structure of an icosahedral palladium particle.- Structural investigations of metal clusters by HREM.- The structure of small penta-twinned gold particles.- Electron microscope studies of the regular twinning structure and the grain boundary structure in a system of cobalt particles.- Fine particles of icosahedral quasicrystal formed by gas evaporation technique.- Lattice imaging of bismuth clusters.- Modes of deformation under varied tensile directions in laminar, colloidal gold.- Atomic structural rearrangements induced by electron beam heating of coalesced palladium particles.- Structure of small palladium particles studied by HRTEM.- Size distribution of Bi clusters deposits on amorphous carbon substrates.- Stresses induced in the deposit substrate interface during small particles growth.- Nm-sized crystallites embedded in single crystalline films of magnesium oxide.- Dynamics.- Small clusters: between dynamics and thermodynamics.- Dynamic and quantum size effects in molecular clusters.- Computer simulations of photoionization.- Rotating clusters: centrifugal distortion, isomerization, fragmentation.- More on the melting of Lennard-Jones clusters.- Thermal decay of Lennard-Jones clusters.- Dynamics of transition-metal clusters.- The thermal motion of gold atoms in metal cluster compounds as determined by Mössbauer and specific heat.- Stability and Fragmentation.- Stability of alkali-atom clusters.- Jellium-model calculation for monomer and dimer decays of some potassium clusters.- Theoretical study of the stability of XnN(n= ?1, 0, +1, +2; X = Ag, Cu; N?25) clusters as a function of size using a non-local density functional formalism.- Theory of fragmentation of metal clusters.- Evaporation of tetramers in Sb4n clusters and conditions for the formation of Sb2n+1 clusters.- Role of fragmentation processes in the liquid metal ion source production of aggregates.- Cluster cations ejected from liquid metal ion source: alkali metals (Li, Na) and group IV elements (Si, Ge, Sn, Pb).- Sputtered metal and silicon cluster ions: collision-induced fragmentation and neutralization.- Enrichment of Zintl cluster ions.- Enrichment and segregation in alkali heteroclusters.- Metal-insulator transitions in microclusters? Mixed sodium/sodium chloride aggregates.- Dissociation of small metal particles induced by surface plasmon excitation with laser light.- Sodium halide clusters: evidence for direct electronic fragmentation.- Ionization dynamics of van-der-Waals clusters.- Metastable decay of rare gas cluster ions: mechanism and kinetics.- Intra-cluster ion-molecule reactions and photodissociation of molecular clusters.- Magic numbers of large rare gas clusters.- Fragmentation of neutral van der Waals clusters with visible laser light: a new variant of the Raman effect?.- Multiply charged cluster ions of Ar, Kr, Xe, N2, O2, CO2, SO2 and NH3: Production mechanism, appearance size and appearance energy.- Quantized losses from charged nitrogen clusters.- Observation and investigation of metastable decay series of (N2)+n cluster ions.- Electron attachment to clusters composed of closed shell, hydrogen containing molecules.- A mechanism of electron attachment to small clusters.- Electron bombardment fragmentation of size selected molecular clusters.- Kinetic energy release of clusters after multiphoton ionisation with time of flight and electrostatic analyser techniques.- Interactions of electrons with SF6: ionization and attachment.- Electronic Structure and Properties.- General properties of the electronic structure of alkali metal clusters and Ia - IIa mixed clusters.- Metallic free clusters.- Electronic structure of metal clusters.- Electronic properties of small platinum particles as seen by NMR.- Investigation of local chemical and electronic properties of small particles with EELS point analysis and image energy filtering in a STEM.- Electronic correlation and effective interactions in small alkali clusters.- New methods for the calculation of the electronic structure of clusters: application for Na13 to Na147.- Static electric dipole polarizability of small sodium aggregates.- Electronic structure and stability of charged beryllium clusters.- Magnetism and local order.- Calculation of the size dependence of the ionization energy and autoionization energy of Hg-clusters.- Shell structure of electronic states of Cu clusters.- The nickel-group IV molecules NiC, NiSi, and NiGe.- First-principles calculations of K-edge X-ray absorption near edge spectra of some transition metal dimers.- Compared electronic structure of negative ions MpC?n : I. Normal elements in Hückel theory.- Electronic structure of spheroidal metal containing carbon shells: study of the LaC60 and C60 clusters and their ions within the local density approximation.- Molecular orbital calculations on transition metal clusters.- Bonding in nickel cluster carbonyls.- NMR in aluminum small particles in high magnetic field.- Size dependence of the paramagnetic susceptibility of Mg and Zn clusters.- Photoemission from tin and lead cluster anions.- Electronic and chemical properties of indium clusters.- Anomalous nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in copper small particles.- Core edge energy loss studies of Pd clusters on graphite.- Auger and electron energy loss spectroscopies of small palladium particles supported on (111) oriented MgO films.- Electron distribution on small Ni particles and Ce ions in X and Y zeolites related to their catalytic properties.- Vacuum-UV photoemission-photoion coincidence spectroscopy of neutral metal atom clusters.- Fluorescence of rare gas clusters excited with synchrotron radiation.- Ionization energies of cesium and cesium oxide clusters.- Electronic shell structure in Cs-O clusters.- Physical properties of high-nuclearity metal cluster compounds.- NMR of metal-core bonded 31P in polynuclear metal cluster compounds.- Magnetic properties and EPR spectroscopy of molecular metal clusters.- EPR on the high-nuclearity palladium cluster Pd561Phen36O200.- Ac and dc electrical conductivity of polynuclear metal cluster compounds.- Electrical and magnetic properties of thin films containing metal clusters.- Optical Properties.- Optical absorption of small metallic particles.- The size dependent shift of the surface plasmon absorption band of small spherical metal particles.- Investigation of surface plasma resonances in small sodium clusters.- Absorption spectroscopy of size-selected trimers and pentamers transition metal clusters isolated in rare gas solids: preliminary steps.- Fluorescence spectroscopy of laser vaporized species.- UV-visible and Raman investigations of matrix isolated adducts between metal vapors of chromium and benzene: selective photoirradiations effects.- Nanosecond emission spectra in ?m space of Si particles sputtered by laser irradiation.- Melting for lead particles of very small sizes; influence of surface phenomena.- Nonlinear optics in quantum confined semiconductor particles.- Many-cluster-systems: models of inhomogeneous matter.- Optical properties of systems containing Au55-clusters.- Electronic excitations in many-particle systems: a quantitative analysis.- Precursor-states of percolation in quasi-fractal many-particle-systems.- The relationship of Au55(PPh3)12Cl6 to colloidal gold.- Adsorption and Chemical Reactions.- Reactivity of free clusters.- Cluster-model study of the interaction of halogen atoms with Ag clusters.- On the splitting of the CO 1? level in the chemisorption system CO/Ni (111): substrate or lateral interaction?.- Chemisorption and chemical reactions on size selected clusters.- Sequential reactions of silicon clusters with SiD4: constrained heterogeneous nucleation of deuterated silicon particles.- Monitoring adsorption on small particles.- Reactions of small carbon cluster ions with HCN: a structural probe.- Reaction of Aln clusters with oxygen and ammonia.- Size effects in the CO-oxidation over supported Pd particles.- Influence of the precursors on the properties of alumina supported rhodium particles.- Influence of dispersion on the energies of adsorption: H2, CO, propylene and propyne on supported Pd or Pt.- Electronic effect induced by variation of size for Pd clusters in 1,3-butadiene hydrogenation.- Structure flexibility of iridium metal aggregates. Comparison with platinum and rhodium.- Surface oxidation and reduction of small platinum particles observed by in-situ X-ray diffraction.- Optical and chemical studies of II-VI compound clusters.- Conclusions.- Author Index.