RESONANT TUNNELING WITH ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS - AN EXACTLY SOLVABLE MODEL APPLIED TO DESORPTION

The problem of hot electron and/or laser induced desorption of atoms or molecules on surfaces is considered. The equivalence between a previous wavepacket model for this process and the problem of inelastic resonant electron tunneling through a quantum well with electron-phonon coupling is established. Numerical consequences of some exactly solved quantum well models are explored as they relate to desorption.