Interaction of Atoms and Molecules with Solid Surfaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Chemical Bonds outside Solid Surfaces

   • N. H. March

   Pages 1-24

3. Gas-Surface Interactions

   • T. B. Grimley

   Pages 25-52

4. Theory of Atom-Surface Collisions

   • W. Kohn

   Pages 53-70

5. Basic Vibrational Properties of Surfaces

   • F. García-Moliner

   Pages 71-116

6. Electronic Structure of Metal Surfaces

   • J. E. Inglesfield

   Pages 117-153

7. Basic Structural and Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces

   • C. M. Bertoni

   Pages 155-200

8. Low-Energy Electron Diffraction

   • J. B. Pendry

   Pages 201-211

9. Theoretical Aspects of Adsorption

   • B. I. Lundqvist

   Pages 213-254

10. Electronic Theory of Chemisorption

    • D. Spanjaard, M. C. Desjonquères

    Pages 255-323

11. Surface Vibration Spectroscopy

    • H. Ibach

    Pages 325-356

12. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

    • R. M. Feenstra

    Pages 357-379

13. Defect Structures at Surfaces

    • J. Lapujoulade

    Pages 381-405

14. Molecular Scattering from Surfaces (Theory)

    • A. E. DePristo

    Pages 407-458

15. The Structure of Molecules on Surfaces as Determined Using Electron-Stimulated Desorption

    • T. E. Madey, S. A. Joyce, A. L. Johnson

    Pages 459-476

16. Photoemission from Adsorbates

    • A. M. Bradshaw

    Pages 477-528

17. Rate Equations, Rate Constants, and Surface Diffusion

    • G. Wahnström

    Pages 529-566

18. Theory of Adsorption-Desorption Kinetics and Dynamics

    • S. Holloway

    Pages 567-598

19. Elementary Chemical Processes on Surfaces and Heterogeneous Catalysis

    • A. Hamnett

    Pages 599-655

20. Growth Processes at Surfaces

    • M. Djafari Rouhani, D. Estève

    Pages 657-672

There is considerable interest, both fundamental and technological, in the way atoms and molecules interact with solid surfaces. Thus the description of heterogeneous catalysis and other surface reactions requires a detailed understand­ ing of molecule-surface interactions. The primary aim of this volume is to provide fairly broad coverage of atoms and molecules in interaction with a variety of solid surfaces at a level suitable for graduate students and research workers in condensed matter physics, chemical physics, and materials science. The book is intended for experimental workers with interests in basic theory and concepts and had its origins in a Spring College held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare, Trieste. Valuable background reading can be found in the graduate-Ievel introduction to the physics of solid surfaces by ZangwilI(1) and in the earlier works by Garcia­ Moliner and F1ores(2) and Somorjai.(3) For specifically molecule-surface interac­ tions, additional background can be found in Rhodin and Ertl(4) and March.(S) V. Bortolani N. H. March M. P. Tosi References 1. A. Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1988). 2. F. Garcia-Moliner and F. Flores, Introduction to the Theory of Solid Surfaces, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1979). 3. G. A. Somorjai, Chemistry in Two Dimensions: Surfaces, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (1981). 4. T. N. Rhodin and G. Erd, The Nature of the Surface Chemical Bond, North-Holland, Amsterdam (1979). 5. N. H. March, Chemical Bonds outside Metal Surfaces, Plenum Press, New York (1986).

• catalysis
• chemical bond
• chemistry
• condensed matter
• condensed matter physics
• materials science
• metals
• molecule

• University of Modena, Modena, Italy

  V. Bortolani

• University of Oxford, Oxford, England

  N. H. March

• International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

  M. P. Tosi

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