UID:
almahu_9948025390602882
Format:
1 online resource (660 p.)
ISBN:
0-444-60063-9
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1-299-19455-9
Series Statement:
The chemical physics of solid surfaces ; v. 7
Content:
The objective in initiating this series in 1980 was to provide an in-depth review of advances made in the understanding key aspects of surface chemistry and physics through the application of new techniques to the study of well-defined surfaces. Since then the field of surface science has greatly matured, and further important techniques, particularly scanning probe microscopies, have been successfully assimilated into the applications armoury of the surface scientist. The present volume is a series of timely reviews by many of the current experts in the field of phase transitions an
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Chapter 3. The Au(110) (1x2)(1x1) phase transition1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE SURFACE STRUCTURE OF Au(110); 3. FUNDAMENTALS OF PHASE TRANSITIONS.; 4. THE Au(110) TRANSITIONS; 5. REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Roughening, Preroughening, and Reconstruction Transitions in Crystal Surfaces; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION.; 3. TOPOLOGY OF DOMAIN WALL EXCITATIONS; 4. CELL SPIN MODELS; 5. DOMAIN WALL ENTROPY; 6. CHIRALITY; 7. RECONSTRUCTED PHASES WITH PARTIAL DISORDER; 8. FRACTALS AND CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; 9. SURFACE ROUGHENING; 10. ROUGHENING INDUCED DECONSTRUCTION; 11. PREROUGHENING TRANSITIONS
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12. DOF PHASE AND PARTICLE-HOLE SYMMETRYREFERENCES; Chapter 5. Two-dimensional phase transitions in alkali-metal adlayers; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. INTERACTIONS IN ALKALI METAL ADLAYERS; 3. ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF ALKALI-METAL ADLAYERS; 4. PHASE TRANSITIONS AND PHASE DIAGRAMS; 5. EFFECT OF THE PHASE TRANSITIONS IN AM OVERLAYERS ON PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF COVERED SURFACES; 6. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. Growth Kinetics in Two-dimensional Phase Transitions; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND; 3. EXPERIMENTAL; 4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; 5. CONCLUSIONS-FUTURE PROBLEMS
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7. REFERENCESChapter 7. Surface melting: an experimental overview; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MACROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; 3. MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; 4. RELATED SURFACE BEHAVIOUR; 5. SURFACE NON-MELTING AND BULK SUPERHEATING; 6. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Thermal roughening of surfaces : experimental aspects; 1. INTRODUCTION : THERMAL RESTRUCTURING AT SURFACES; 2. EQUILIBRIUM CRYSTAL SHAPE (ECS) AND SURFACE ROUGHENING; 3. DETECTION OF STEPS AT SURFACES; 4. ROUGHENING OF NONVICINAL SURFACES; 5. ROUGHENING OF VICINAL SURFACES
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6. CONSEQUENCES OF SURFACE ROUGHENING ON CRYSTAL GROWTHReferences; Chapter 9. ROUGHENING, WETTING AND SURFACE MELTING:; 1. Introduction; 2. Roughening; 3. Wetting; 4. Surface melting; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; References; 5. Appendix; Chapter 10. Computer simulation of atomic dynamics on metal surfaces; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SIMULATION METHODS; 3. POTENTIALS FOR SIMULATIONS OF METALS; 4. SIMULATIONS OF FLAT SURFACES; 5. FACETING OF STEPPED SURFACES.; 6. ADATOM DIFFUSION ON SURFACES.; 7. DIFFUSION ON STEPPED SURFACES; 8. INTERACTING SURFACES.; 9. CONCLUSIONS.; REFERENCES
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Chapter 11. Structural Fluctuations in Small Particles
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-81924-X
Language:
English
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