Chemical Physics, 2000, V 251, N 1-3.

Preface 
H Petek
vii-viii


Theory of inelastic lifetimes of low-energy electrons in metals    
P.M. Echenique, J.M. Pitarke, E.V. Chulkov, A. Rubio
1-35

Surface collective excitations in ultrafast pump-probe            
spectroscopy of metal nanoparticles
T.V. Shahbazyan, I.E. Perakis
37-49

Photodesorption of NO from a metal surface: quantum dynamical     
implications of a two-mode model
Peter Saalfrank, Gisela Boendgen, Karin Finger, Lorenzo Pesce
51-69

The role of Auger decay in hot electron excitation in copper      
H. Petek, H. Nagano, M.J. Weida, S. Ogawa
71-86

Hot-electron femtochemistry at surfaces: on the role of multiple  
electron processes in desorption
J.W. Gadzuk
87-97

Femtosecond electron dynamics at the benzene/Ag(111) interface   
K.J. Gaffney, C.M. Wong, S.H. Liu, A.D. Miller, J.D. McNeill, C.B. Harris
99-110

Femtosecond two-photon photoemission studies of image-potential 
states
Thomas Fauster, Christian Reuß, Igor L. Shumay, Martin Weinelt
111-121

Influence of Xe adlayer morphology and electronic structure on  
image-potential state lifetimes of Ru(0001)
W. Berthold, U. Höfer, P. Feulner, D. Menzel
123-132

Photoemission linewidths narrower than the quasiparticle        
inverse lifetime
T.-C. Chiang
133-140

Ultrafast electron dynamics at surfaces probed by resonant      
Auger spectroscopy
W. Wurth, D. Menzel
141-149

Quasi-particle lifetimes on noble metal surfaces studied by     
ARPES and STM
René Matzdorf
151-166

Ultrafast electron and lattice dynamics in semiconductors at    
high excited carrier densities
J. Paul Callan, Albert M.-T. Kim, Li Huang, Eric Mazur
167-179

Electron dynamics in metallic nanoparticles                     
J.-Y. Bigot, V. Halté, J.-C. Merle, A. Daunois
181-203

Ultrafast transient grating scattering studies of carrier       
dynamics at a silicon surface
Theodore Sjodin, Chun-Mao Li, Hrvoje Petek, Hai-Lung Dai
205-213

Electron dynamics and surface plasmon resonance nonlinearities  
in metal nanoparticles
N. Del Fatti, F. Vallée, C. Flytzanis, Y. Hamanaka, A. Nakamura
215-226

Laser induced dynamic spectral weight transfer in              
La0.7Ca0.3MnO3
Ahmed I. Lobad, A.J. Taylor, C. Kwon, S.A. Trugman, T.R. Gosnell
227-236

Electron and lattice dynamics following optical excitation of   
metals
J. Hohlfeld, S.-S. Wellershoff, J. Güdde, U. Conrad, V. Jähnke, E.
Matthias
237-258

Ultrafast optical relaxation dynamics in metallic               
nanoparticles: from bulk-like toward spatial confinement regime
S. Stagira, M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, A. Stella, P. Tognini, P.
Cheyssac, R. Kofman
259-267

Coherent control of electron-phonon quantum kinetics: exploring 
the weak and the strong coupling regime
Martin Wegener, Daniel S. Chemla
269-282

Coherent phonon spectroscopy of GaAs surfaces using             
time-resolved second-harmonic generation
Yu-Ming Chang, Li Xu, Harry W.K. Tom
283-308

Coherence control of currents in semiconductors: a materials    
perspective
Henry M. van Driel
309-318

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