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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
Desorption and evaporation from solid surfaces are induced with high yield and wavelength selectivity by excitation of internal adsorbate vibrations with resonant laser infrared. Simple rate equations describe essential features of the process and relate the photoreaction rate and yield to the intensity, the duration of laser-solid surface interaction and molecular properties of the adsorbate. The significance in photodesorption of the experimentally determined spectral widths is shown. Considering the spectral widths in the theory brings the order of the calculated photo-desorption rates for CH3 F-NaCl and the measured rates (also yields) in better concert.