Please select from the following topics:

State-Selected Ion/Surface Scattering

Ion Beam Oxidation of Surfaces

Metal-Insulator-Metal Devices

Customized Instrumentation

Model Simulations

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the University of Notre Dame, the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Petroleum Research Fund.

For a complete review of the field to which the above studies belong, see:

• Jacobs, D. C. (2002) "Reactive Collisions of Hyperthermal Energy Molecular Ions with Solid Surfaces" in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, edited by Steven R. Leone, Annual Reviews, 53:379-407.
• Jacobs, D. C. (2000) "Dynamics of Hypervelocity Gas/Surface Collisions," in Chemical Dynamics in Extreme Environments, edited by R. Dressler, Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry, World Scientific Publishers, 349-389.
• Jacobs, D. C. (1995) "Role of Internal Energy and Approach Geometry in Molecule/Surface Reactive Scattering," Journal of Physics C: Condensed Matter 7, 1023-1045.