Adsorption of xenon atoms on metal surfaces

In recent times the adsorption of rare gases, especially xenon, on metal surfaces has been extensively used to rationalize certain basic features of the adsorption process. Available experimental data on the energetics of adsorption and other photoelectron spectroscopic measurements show that a chemical bonding model alone can explain adequately all the results reported in the literature. Detailed theoretical models have been developed to rationalize the features observed in photoelectron spectra. © 1991.