UID:
almahu_9949199520802882
Format:
XII, 342 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2003.
ISBN:
9783642554667
Series Statement:
Advanced Texts in Physics,
Content:
This comprehensive and innovative text provides an understanding of the geometric and electronic structure of surfaces. It addresses the surfaces of covalent and ionic solids and also metals. The book emphasizes fundamental aspects, such as the principles of surface crystallography and thermodynamics, the forces driving the rearrangement of the atoms, and the relationship between bonding and electronic structure. The book illuminates the relationship between surface orientation, chemistry, energetics, and the resulting properties. The text includes a discussion of elementary excitations at surfaces, their description and measurement. The general physical arguments and methods presented in the book will also allow the reader to analyse novel surfaces and interfaces of new materials. This makes the book an indispensable reference to all those studying growth, surface-molecule interactions, self-assembled structures, property engineering and materials development.
Note:
1. Symmetry -- 1.1 Model Surfaces -- 1.2 Two-Dimensional Crystals -- 1.3 Reciprocal Space -- 2. Thermodynamics -- 2.1 Kinetic Processes and Surfaces in Equilibrium -- 2.2 Thermodynamic Relations for Surfaces -- 2.3 Equilibrium Shape of Small Crystals -- 2.4 Surface Energy and Morphology -- 2.5 Stoichiometry Dependence -- 3. Bonding and Energetics -- 3.1 Orbitals and Bonding -- 3.2 Dangling Bonds -- 3.3 Total Energy and Atomic Forces -- 3.4 Quantitative Description of Structure and Stability -- 3.5 Bond Breaking: Accompanying Charge Transfers and Atomic Displacements -- 4. Reconstruction Elements -- 4.1 Reconstruction and Bonding -- 4.2 Chains -- 4.3 Dimers -- 4.4 Adatoms and Adclusters -- 5. Elementary Excitations I: Single Electronic Quasiparticles -- 5.1 Electrons and Holes -- 5.2 Many-Body Effects -- 5.2.1 Quasiparticle Equation -- 5.3 Quasiparticle Surface States -- 5.4 Strong Electron Correlation -- 6. Elementary Excitations II: Pair and Collective Excitations -- 6.1 Probing Surfaces by Excitations -- 6.2 Electron-Hole Pairs: Excitons -- 6.3 Plasmons -- 6.4 Phonons -- 6.5 Elementary Excitations for Reduced Dimension -- 7. Defects -- 7.1 Realistic and Ideal Surfaces -- 7.2 Point Defects -- 7.3 Line Defects: Steps -- 7.4 Planar Defects: Stacking Faults -- References.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642624582
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642447174
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540006350
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540254713
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642554674
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783662600580
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-55466-7
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55466-7
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