Surface Properties of Layered Structures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. STM and AFM Studies of Layered Materials: General

   • R. Wiesendanger, D. Anselmetti

   Pages 1-26

3. STM & AFM of Layered Transition Metal Compounds

   • R. V. Coleman, Zhenxi Dai, W. W. McNairy, C. G. Slough, Chen Wang

   Pages 27-95

4. Electronic Structure and Properties of Layered Structures

   • A. J. Freeman, A. Continenza, M. Posternak, S. Massidda

   Pages 97-150

5. Helium Atom Scattering Studies of the Surface Phonons of Layered Materials

   • James G. Skofronick, J. Peter Toennies

   Pages 151-218

6. Rare Gases on Graphite

   • Neil D. Shrimpton, Milton W. Cole, William A. Steele, Moses H. W. Chan

   Pages 219-260

7. Monolayer Adsorption of Ar, Kr, Xe and Ch4 on Layered Halides

   • Yves Larher

   Pages 261-315

8. Back Matter

   Pages 317-332

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Layered crystals, characterized by a quasi-two-dimensional character of certain physical properties, play an interesting role in surface science. First of all they provide excellent inert substrates for epitaxial deposition and physisorption studies. The surfaces of layered crystals, however, are interesting in their own right because they make a relevant class of low-dimensional phenomena accessible to surface probes. Change density waves, incommensurate structures, phonon anomalies and high T_c superconductivity are well known examples.
This book collects a series of review articles written by outstanding specialists on the structural assessment and spectroscopy of layered structures with surface-sensitive probes such as scanning microscopy and helium atom scattering, the theoretical analysis of their electronic and vibrational surface states, and the investigation of physisorbed overlayers.

• AFM
• Adsorption
• Physisorption
• STM
• Surface science
• metal
• spectroscopy

• Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy

  G. Benedek

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