Metal Clusters at Surfaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Confinement and Size Effects in Free Metal Clusters

   • Walt A. de Heer

   Pages 1-35

3. Fundamentals of Adsorbate-Surface Interactions

   • Heinz Hövel, Lars S. O. Johansson, Bruno Reihl

   Pages 37-65

4. Growth of Metal Clusters at Surfaces

   • Harald Brune

   Pages 67-105

5. Collision of Clusters with Surfaces: Deposition, Surface Modification and Scattering

   • Wolfgang Harbich

   Pages 107-150

6. Electronic Level Structure of Metal Clusters at Surfaces

   • Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer

   Pages 151-173

7. Conductance Quantisation in Metallic Point Contacts

   • Jan M. van Ruitenbeek

   Pages 175-210

8. Magnetism of Nanometer-Sized Particles and Clusters

   • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

   Pages 211-236

9. Physical Chemistry of Supported Clusters

   • Ueli Heiz, Wolf-Dieter Schneider

   Pages 237-273

10. Application of Clusters to the Fabrication of Silicon Nanostructures

    • Katrin Seeger, Richard E. Palmer

    Pages 275-301

11. Back Matter

    Pages 303-310

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Numerous experiments and calculations have shown that isolated metal clusters possess many interesting features, quite different from those known from surface and solid- state physics or from atomic and molecular physics. The technological exploitation of these new properties, e.g. in miniature electronic or mechanical components, requires the cluster to be brought into an environment such as an encapsulating matrix or a surface. Due to the interaction with the contact medium, the properties of the clusters may change or even disappear. Thus the physics of cluster-on-surface systems -- the main subject of this book -- is of fundamental importance. The book addresses a wide audience, from the newcomer to the expert. Starting from fundamental concepts of adsorbate-surface interactions, the modification of electronic properties through electron confinement, and concepts of cluster production, it elucidates the distinct properties of the new metallic nanostructures.

• Atom
• chemistry
• cluster
• collision
• magnetism
• molecular physics
• molecule
• nanostructure
• particles
• physical chemistry
• semiconductor
• silicon
• spectroscopy
• surface
• thin films

• Universität Rostock Fachbereich Physik, Rostock, Germany

  Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer

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