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Energy Transfer at Solid Surfaces In collaborative projects, we have studied a variety of gas-surface interactions, including rotational, vibrational, and electronic energy transfer at solid surfaces. The figure above shows the optical arrangement we used to study scattered NO by multiphoton ionization. J. Misewich, C. N. Plum, G. Blyholder, P. L. Houston, and R. P. Merrill, "Vibrational Relaxation During Gas-Surface Collisions," J. Chem. Phys. 78, 4245-4249 (1983). V. A. Apkarian, R. Hamers, P. L. Houston, J. Misewich, and R. P. Merrill, "Laser Studies of Vibrational Energy Exchange in Gas-Solid Collisions," Proceedings of the Seventeenth Jerusalem Symposium, Dynamics at Surfaces, 1984, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland. J. Misewich, P. L. Houston, and R. P. Merrill, "Vibrational Relaxation of Carbon Dioxide (101) and Carbon Monoxide (v=2) During Gas-Surface Collisions," J. Chem. Phys. 82, 1577-1584 (1985). R. J. Hamers, P. L. Houston, and R. P. Merrill, "Direct-Inelastic and Trapping- Desorption Scattering of NO(v=0,J) from Ir(111): Angular, Velocity and Rotational Energy Distributions," J. Chem. Phys. 83, 6045-6 (1985). P. L. Houston, "Vibrational Energy Exchange in Molecular Collisions with Solid Surfaces," Phys. Today, January, 1987. P. L. Houston and R. P. Merrill, "Gas-Surface Interactions with Vibrationally Excited Molecules," Chem. Rev. 88, 657-671 (1988). R. J. Hamers, P. L. Houston, and R. P. Merrill, "Competition between Direct- Inelastic and Trapping-Desorption Channels in the Scattering of NO(v=0,J) from Ir(111)," J. Chem. Phys. 88, 6548-6555 (1988). J. S. Hamers, P. L. Houston, and R. P. Merrill, "Vibrational Relaxation of Carbon Dioxide at LiF(100)," J. Chem. Phys. 92, 5661-5676 (1990). M. Asscher, F. M. Zimmermann, L. L. Springsteen, P. L. Houston, and W. Ho, "Translational and Internal Energy Distributions of CO Photochemically Desorbed from Oxidized Ni(111)," J. Chem. Phys. 96, 4808-4811 (1992). D. P. Masson, R. P. Merrill, and P. L. Houston, "The Sticking and Dissociation of NH3 on W(110): a three-state model," Surf. Sci. 330, 239-254 (1995). pdf format This work was supported by The Cornell Center for Materials Research, itself supported by the Materials Division of the NSF.