Physics at Surfaces
Physics at Surfaces
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A subject of keen scientific inquiry since the last century, surface physics emerged as an independent discipline only in the late 1960s resulting from the development of ultra-high vacuum technology and high speed digital computers. With these tools, reliable experimental measurements and theoretical calculations could at last be compared.
Physics at Surfaces
is a unique introduction to the physics and chemical physics of solid surfaces, and atoms and molecules that interact with solid surfaces. This book provides a synthesis of the entire field of surface physics from the perspective of a modern condensed matter physicist with a healthy interest in chemical physics.
Product details
April 1988Paperback
9780521347525
472 pages
228 × 152 × 30 mm
0.871kg
327 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of acronyms
- Historical sketch
- Part I. Clean Surfaces:
- 1. Thermodynamics
- 2. Chemical analysis
- 3. Crystal structure
- 4. Electronic structure
- 5. Phase transitions
- 6. Elementary excitations
- 7. Optical properties
- Part II. Adsorption:
- 8. Physisorption
- 9. Chemisorption
- 10. Crystal structure
- 11. Phase transitions
- 12. Electronic structure
- 13. Energy transfer
- 14. Kinetics and dynamics
- 15. Surface reactions
- 16. Epitaxy
- References
- Index.
