In E20, scientists and engineers have been working for more than 20 years on experimental Surface Science, with the object to understand the elementary processes of adsorption, coadsorption, and surface reactions. To achieve this goal, many methods are being used to assemble information as complete as possible about the geometrical and electronic structures of surface layers on metal and semiconductor surfaces, and extract the mechanisms of the kinetics and dynamics of the connected processes in atomistic detail.
Close collaboration exists with many experimental and theoretical groups worldwide.