Dissipative effects Energy dissipation Energy-loss spectrum Projectile distributions Surface scattering Energy loss distributions Fast atom diffractions Friction Inelastic contributions Silver Aluminum Atoms Band structure Band-structure-based (BSB) model Condensed matter physics Crystallographic directions Dielectric materials Diffraction Dissipative process Electronic excitation Energy loss Experimental conditions Grazing incidence Grazing scattering Metal surface Metal surfaces Multiple peak structures Plasmon excitations Surface-state contributions Transverse momenta