The Surface Dynamics Laboratory is founded at IBM by Alan Luntz.
Research focus: Chemical dynamics underlying technical hetereogenous catalysis.
Key papers:
A. W. Kleyn, A. C. Luntz and D. J. Auerbach.
Rotational energy transfer in direct inelastic surface scattering: NO on Ag(111).
Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1169 (1981).
J. W. Gadzuk and A. C. Luntz.
On vibrational lineshapes of adsorbed molecules.
Surf. Sci. 144, 429 (1984).
A. C. Luntz, M. D. Williams and D. S. Bethune.
The sticking of O2 on a Pt(111) surface.
J. Chem. Phys. 89, 4381 (1988).
The Surface Dynamics Laboratory is moved to Denmark, to the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) where it is headed by Alan Luntz and nursed by Arnd Baurichter.
Research focus: Chemical dynamics underlying technical hetereogenous catalysis.
From 2001: Interstellar surface catalysis.
Key papers:
L. Diekhoner, L. Hornekær, L. Mortensen, E. Jensen, A. Baurichter, V.V. Petrunin and A.C. Luntz.
Indirect evidence for strong non-adiabatic coupling in N2 associative desorption from and dissociative adsorption on Ru (0001).
Journal of Chemical Physics 117, 5018 (2002) (pdf).
L. Hornekær, A. Baurichter, V.V. Petrunin, D. Field and A.C. Luntz.
Importance of surface morphology in interstellar H2 formation.
Science 302, 1943 (2003) (pdf).
The Surface Dynamics Laboratory is moved to the Aarhus University where it is headed by Liv Hornekær.
Research focus: Interstellar surface catalysis and nanoscience.
