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The quickly developing STM techniques led to insight, thought to be impossible for a long time, into the structure and, particularly, the defect structure of metal surfaces. Gerhard’s group made it possible to visualize directly diffusion processes using a high speed STM, and thus verify macroscopic laws, 10/29/2007 NCCR 32
Diffusion studies Fick’s law of diffusion, directly at the atomic scale or to visualize the mesoscopic phenomena at a smaller length scale. Moving to smaller and smaller length scales was accompanied by setting up a group within the Physical Chemistry Department of the Fritz-Haber-Institute in the late 80s, looking into ultrafast processes at surfaces. Pump-probe experiments using femtosecond laser technology opened deep insight into the electron dynamics during photon excitation and concomitantly into energy transfer processes upon adsorbate excitation, these phenomena are relevant in laserinduced desorption from surfaces, a field in which Gerhard Ertl and Manfred Neumann published a first paper in 1972. 10/29/2007 NCCR 33
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Page 13 and 14: Education From 1955 to 1957, he stu
Page 15 and 16: Years 2004-now 1986-2004 1981-1982
Page 17 and 18: REACTION I am speechless," Ertl tol
Page 19 and 20: Gerhard Ertl was born on October 10
Page 21 and 22: HABILITATION The topic of his habil
Page 23 and 24: Move to Berlin It was only in 1985,
Page 25 and 26: Ammonia synthesis One could perhaps
Page 27 and 28: STM and UPS Shortly after the scann
Page 29 and 30: Chemical oscillations II After Gerh
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Page 49 and 50: In October 1958 Rudolf Brill was ap
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Page 59 and 60: A Brief history of the Institute
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