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Absorption of a pulse of laser light in the surface region of a solid causes a fast temperature increase, followed, after the end of the laser pulse, by a rapid decrease to the base temperature. Experiments with a Nd laser (power 10 5 - 10 6 W/cm 2 , half width of the pulse 150 μsec) showed that desorption of CO from a Pd surface reaches its maximum rate within the time constant of the system ( ~ 0.5 msec). This effect can be used for example to investigate the kinetics of adsorption /desorption processes by means of relaxation methods.
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Ertl et al. (1972) studied this question.
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