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In recent years there has been a growing interest in understanding the nature and the decay mechanisms of the electronic excitations of adsorbates. The energies and lifetimes of such excitations are important in a variety of active research areas such as photon and electron-stimulated desorption, photoluminescence and photochemistry of adsorbates, resonance photoemission, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and non-linear surface optical processes. In general, optical studies of such excitations are hampered by weak signals and by the limited spectral range accessible. Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), however, has submonolayer sensitivity and can probe a very wide range of excitations from vibrational to high-lying electronic excitations. With the appropriate choice of scattering conditions, EELS also permits symmetry and spin-forbidden transitions to be observed.1,2
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Avouris, P., Demuth, J.E. (1983). Electronically Excited States of Adsorbates on Metal Surfaces. In: Aussenegg, F.R., Leitner, A., Lippitsch, M.E. (eds) Surface Studies with Lasers. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82085-4_3
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