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Finally, the investigation of noble metal bonding on semiconductor surfaces provides evidence that at moderate temperatures Cu diffuses easily into the Si surface whereas the penetration barrier for Ag is almost as large as its binding energy. The theoretical results help in the understanding of an important catalytic process in the synthesis of silicone polymers and shed light on the Cu/Si and Ag/Si interface formation. 

In the photoelectric effect, energy absorbed from photons provides information about the binding energies of electrons to metal surfaces. When light interacts with free atoms, the interaction reveals information about electrons bound to individual atoms. 

Fig. 30. Contour plot of photoelectron-photodissociation coincidence spectrum as a distribution of photoelectron intensity (dark shade = low, light shade = high) against the electron binding energy and relative translational energy of the photofragments. Also shown on the left and at the bottom are the partially averaged distributions for the translational energy release and the electron binding energy, respectively.

We were first introduced to the photoelectric effect as the emission of electrons when a surface is irradiated with light. The threshold is defined by hv = W where v is the frequency of the light and W a characteristic binding energy for the electron. It was soon realized that... 

Figure 3.25 The probability Q, to create a core hole in a level with binding energy E, with a primary electron of energy Ev maximizes for EfE, 2-3 (left). Auger decay is the preferred mode of dcexcitation in light elements, while X-ray fluorescence becomes more important for heavier elements... 

It is a well known fact that in light nuclei many states are of the cluster type, see [16]. States close to the threshold energy of break up into constituent clusters are precisely of the cluster type. For example it was found that the calculated second 0+ state in 12C, which corresponds to the observed second 0+ state located at 0.39 MeV above the 3a threshold energy, has a structure where individual a-clustcrs interact predominantly in relative S-waves. Thus it was concluded that the cluster state near = nEa with n = 3 and where Ea is the n-particlc binding energy has an a-particlc gas-like structure. 

Since long it is well known that two-body forces are not enough to explain some nuclear properties, and TBF have to be introduced. Typical examples are the binding energy of light nuclei, the spin dynamics of nucleon-deuteron scattering, and the saturation point of nuclear matter. Phenomenological and microscopic TBF have been widely used to describe the above mentioned properties. 

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