Surface Science Techniques

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Macroscopic Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Contact Angle and Wetting Properties

      • Yuehua Yuan, T. Randall Lee

      Pages 3-34

   3. Adsorption Calorimetry on Well-Defined Surfaces

      • Ole Lytken, Hans-Jörg Drescher, Rickmer Kose, J. Michael Gottfried

      Pages 35-55

3. Optical Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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4. Optical techniques

   1. Methods of IR Spectroscopy for Surfaces and Thin Films

      • David Allara, Josh Stapleton

      Pages 59-98

   2. A Surface Scientist’s View on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

      • Maurizio Canepa

      Pages 99-135

   3. Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy

      • Lee J. Richter

      Pages 137-161

5. X-Ray Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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6. X ray Techniques

   1. Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction

      • Osami Sakata, Masashi Nakamura

      Pages 165-190

   2. X-Ray Reflectivity

      • A. Gibaud, M. S. Chebil, T. Beuvier

      Pages 191-216

   3. Resonant Photoelectron Diffraction

      • Alberto Verdini, Peter Krüger, Luca Floreano

      Pages 217-247

   4. Surface Structure Analysis with X-Ray Standing Waves

      • Jörg Zegenhagen

      Pages 249-275

   5. Advanced Applications of NEXAFS Spectroscopy for Functionalized Surfaces

      • Alexei Nefedov, Christof Wöll

      Pages 277-303

7. Neutral Particle Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305

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   2. Neutron Reflectivity

      • Frédéric Ott

      Pages 307-332

   3. Probing Surfaces with Thermal He Atoms: Scattering and Microscopy with a Soft Touch

      • Bodil Holst, Gianangelo Bracco

      Pages 333-365

   4. The Helium Spin-Echo Method

      • Andrew Jardine

      Pages 367-396

   5. Diffraction of H2 from Metal Surfaces

      • Daniel Farías, Marina Minniti, Rodolfo Miranda

      Pages 397-420

8. Charged Particle Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 421-421

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The book describes the experimental techniques employed to study surfaces and interfaces. The emphasis is on the experimental method. Therefore all chapters start with an introduction of the scientific problem, the theory necessary to understand how the technique works and how to understand the results. Descriptions of real experimental setups, experimental results at different systems are given to show both the strength and the limits of the technique. In a final part the new developments and possible extensions of the techniques are presented. The included techniques provide microscopic as well as macroscopic information. They cover most of the techniques used in surface science.

• X-ray techniques
• adsorption calorimetry
• infrared spectroscopy
• ion Scattering
• neutral beam techniques
• nonlinear optical techniques
• scanning probe techniques
• spectroellipsometry
• surface analysis
• surfaces and interfaces
• time of flight measurements

• , Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

  Gianangelo Bracco

• , Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Svalbard

  Bodil Holst

Dr. GIANANGELO BRACCO: HONORS AND AWARDS November 2008: Fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tubitak). October 2008: Fellowship (“Short Term Mobility”), Italian National Research Council (CNR). 2006: Research Fellowship, Technical University, Graz (Austria) 1998: Research Fellowship, Section F of National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM), Italy. 1988: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Surface Physics Lab, Department of Physics, University of Genoa 1987: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Physics, University of Genoa 1984-86: Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Genoa Co-organizer of Conferences 2009: Member of the Organizing Committee of the 26th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS26), Parma (Italy), 30 August-4 September 2009. 2006: Member of the Organizing Committee of the 12th Workshop on Surface Dynamics, June 22-25, 2006, Modena (Italy). 2004: Member of the Organizing Committee of the 21st International Conference on Atomic Collision in Solids, held in Genoa (Italy) on July 4-9, 2004. 2002: Coordinator and chairman of the symposium: “Growth and properties of organic films” in the National INFMeeting 2002, held in Bari (Italy). June 24-28 2002. 1995-96: Scientific Secretary of the 16th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS16), 9-13 September 1996, Genoa (Italy). 1992-93: Scientific Secretary of the 7th International Conference on Vibrations at Surfaces (VAS7), 14-17 June 1993, Santa Margherita Ligure (Italy)

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