Determination of Atom-Surface van der Waals Potentials from Transmission-Grating Diffraction Intensities

R. E. Grisenti, W. Schoellkopf, J. P. Toennies +2

Molecular beams of rare gas atoms and D_2 have been diffracted from 100 nm period SiN_x transmission gratings. The relative intensities of the diffraction peaks out to the 8th orde…