Current Research on Molecular Processing

Future research

A research imperative in the next decade will be to increase our knowledge of the interaction of electrons with more complex targets and in all phases of matter. This is widely recognized in many national and international research reviews but perhaps most strongly by the 2000 USA DOE ‘Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science’ report which concluded that ‘It is apparent from this report that major progress in the future in the area of electron-driven processes must include interdisciplinary research between different communities such as atomic, molecular, and optical physics, surface physics and chemistry and the physics and chemistry that is concerned with the interaction of radiation with matter. It is also apparent from this report that significant future progress can only be achieved if experiment, theory, computation, and simulation work hand in hand and coordinate their respective efforts’.

The primary objective of this proposed programme is to initiate such a strategy and develop a large-scale, multidisciplinary and collaborative effort that will implement a research strategy to develop ‘Electron Induced Processing at the Molecular Level ’.