Overview
- Expanded and updated edition of a very successful textbook
- Places emphasis both on theory and experiment, up to latest developments, such as giant magnetoresistance and topological insulators
- Covers collective phenomena at interfaces, superconductivity, and magnetism
- Includes easy-to-follow mathematical derivations
- Expanded coverage includes topics such as the effect of spin-orbit coupling on surface states, plus well-established experimental techniques such as X-ray diffraction and reflection anisotropy spectroscopy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Adsorption on Solid Surfaces
- Collective Phenomena at Interfaces
- Electronic Surface States
- Giant Magnetoresistance
- Interface Magnetism and Spin Effects
- Morphology and Structure of Surfaces
- Scattering from Surfaces and Thin Films
- Solid State Physics Textbook
- Space Charge Layers
- Superconductor/Semiconductor Interface
- Surface Phonons
- Topological Insulators
About this book
This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. As in previous editions the preparation of surfaces and thin films, their atomic and morphological structure, their vibronic and electronic properties as well as fundamentals of adsorption are treated. Because of their importance in modern information technology and nanostructure research, particular emphasis is paid to electronic surface and interface states, semiconductor space charge layers and heterostructures. A special chapter of the book is devoted to collective phenomena at interfaces and in thin films such as superconductivity and magnetism. The latter topic includes the meanwhile important issues giant magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque mechanism, both effects being of high interest in information technology. In this new edition, for the first time, the effect of spin-orbit coupling on surface states is treated. In this context the class of the recently detected topological insulators, materials of significant importance for spin electronics, are discussed. Particular emphasis, hereby, is laid on the new type of topologically protected surface states with well-defined spin orientation. Furthermore, some important well established experimental techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS), which were missing so far in earlier editions, were added in this new 6th edition of the book.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
Authors: Hans Lüth
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10756-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10755-4Published: 18 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30754-1Published: 18 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10756-1Published: 05 November 2014
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 6
Number of Pages: XIII, 589
Number of Illustrations: 422 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Solid State Physics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials