Research Catalog

Title

Concepts in surface physics / M.-C. Desjonquères, D. Spanjaard.

Author

Desjonquères, M.-C. (Marie-Catherine), 1944-

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Spanjaard, D. (Daniel), 1940-

Description

xiii, 565 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Springer series in surface sciences ; 30

Uniform Title

Springer series in surface sciences ; 30.

Subject

• Surfaces (Physics)
• Oberflächenphysik
• Structuur
• Oppervlakken
• Surfaces (Physics) > Electric properties
• Surfaces (physique)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-557) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Thermodynamical and Statistical Properties of Clean Surfaces -- 2.1. Thermodynamics of a Surface at Equilibrium -- 2.2. Equilibrium Shape of a Crystal -- 2.3. Facetting -- 2.4. The Roughening Transition -- 3. Atomic Structure of Surfaces -- 3.1. Surface Crystallography -- 3.2. Experimental Techniques -- 4. Vibrations at Surfaces -- 4.1. Elastic Forces in Crystals -- 4.2. Bulk Modes -- 4.3. Surface Modes -- 4.4. Spectral Densities of Modes -- 4.5. Vibrational Thermodynamical Functions -- 4.6. Mean Square Displacements -- 5. Electronic Structure of Surfaces -- 5.1. Jellium Model -- 5.2. Nearly Free Electron Model-Surface States -- 5.3. Tight-Binding Approximation -- 5.4. Application of the Tight-Binding Approximation to Transition Metal Surfaces -- 5.5. Application of the Tight-Binding Approximation to Semiconductor Surfaces -- 5.6. Other Methods -- 5.7. Surface Plasmons in Metals -- 5.8. Image Potential -- 5.9. Some Further Remarks on Exchange and Correlation Energies -- 5.10. Experimental Techniques for Investigating the Electronic Structure -- 6. Adsorption Phenomena -- 6.1. Thermodynamical Approach -- 6.2. Statistical Methods -- 6.3. Physisorption -- 6.4. Chemisorption -- 6.5. Interactions Between Adsorbates -- 6.6. Electronic Structure of Ordered Overlayers. An Example: O on Ni(100) -- App. A. Theory of Scattering by a Spherical Potential: Brief Summary -- App. B. The Continued Fraction Technique -- App. C. Electromagnetic Waves in Matter -- App. D. Calculation of the Variation of the Total Energy Due to a Perturbing External Charge Distribution Within the Density Functional Formalism -- App. E. Useful Relations for the Study of Many Body Interactions -- App. F. Interaction of an Electron With an Electromagnetic Field and Theory of Angle-Resolved Ultra-Violet Photoemission (UPS) -- App. G. Calculation of the Current in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope -- App. H. Calculation of the Atomic Dynamic Polarizability -- App. I. Variation of the Density of States Due to a Perturbing Potential -- App. J. Energy of Chemisorption in the Anderson-Grimley-Newns Model Using Contour Integrals -- App. K. Elastic Constants and Elastic Waves in Cubic Crystals.

ISBN

• 354056506X
• 9783540565062
• 038756506X
• 9780387565064

LCCN

93018561

OCLC

• ocm27684857
• 27684857
• SCSB-2000106

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library