Overview
- Measurement of surface phonon dispersion of a large variety of crystallographic surfaces
- Presents helium atom scattering spectroscopy as a powerful method to study surface phonons
- Leads to understanding surface structures, adsorbate structures, phase transition, diffusion, tribology and chemical surface reactions
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences (SSSUR, volume 63)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Experimental advances in helium atom scattering spectroscopy over the last forty years have allowed the measurement of surface phonon dispersion curves of more than 200 different crystal surfaces and overlayers of insulators, semiconductors and metals. The first part of the book presents, at a tutorial level, the fundamental concepts and methods in surface lattice dynamics, and the theory of atom-surface interaction and inelastic scattering in their various approximations, up to the recent electron-phonon theory of helium atom scattering from conducting surfaces. The second part of the book, after introducing the experimentalist to He-atom spectrometers and the rich phenomenology of helium atom scattering from corrugated surfaces, illustrates the most significant experimental results on the surface phonon dispersion curves of various classes of insulators, semiconductors, metals, layered crystals, topological insulators, complex surfaces, adsorbates, ultra-thin films and clusters. The great potential of helium atom scattering for the study of atomic scale diffusion, THz surface collective excitations, including acoustic surface plasmons, and the future prospects of helium atom scattering are presented in the concluding chapters. The book will be valuable reading for all researchers and graduate students interested in dynamical processes at surfaces.
Reviews
“The target reader is possibly an experienced PhD student, or a colleague. … We really have to thank Peter and Giorgio for having written a book that is a guide to younger researchers, even devoted to other subjects: theory and experiments are working together, mutually understanding the critical issues, so that any detail is suitably addressed and, finally, understood.” (Leo Miglio, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, Vol. 35 (5-6), 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Giorgio Benedek, former Full Professor of Structure of Matter, is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, visiting professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebastian, Spain, Director of the Erice International School of Solid State Physics at the Erice Ettore Majorana Centre, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. He is recipient of the International Franqui Chair, Belgium, of the Alexander von Humboldt Award, and co-recipient of the 2014 International Prize for Physics of the Lincei National Academy of Italy (with Diederik Wiersma) and the Max-Planck Prize 1992 with J. Peter Toennies.
Prof. Dr. J. Peter Toennies • Assistant from 1957 – 1998 at the Physics Department of the University of Bonn • Director at the Max Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen from 1969 – 1998 • Emeritus Director since 1998 • Honorary Degrees from University of Göteborg (Sweden) and Amherst College (USA) • Member of the National Academy of Science (Leopoldina) Halle, Germany and corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. • Europhysics Hewlett-Packard Condensed Matter Division Prize (with G. Ertl and H. Ibach) , the Stern- Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society and other international prizes including the Max-Planck Prize 1992 with Giorgio Benedek.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Atomic Scale Dynamics at Surfaces
Book Subtitle: Theory and Experimental Studies with Helium Atom Scattering
Authors: Giorgio Benedek, Jan Peter Toennies
Series Title: Springer Series in Surface Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56443-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56441-7Published: 14 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-56443-1Published: 28 December 2018
Series ISSN: 0931-5195
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4743
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 625
Number of Illustrations: 177 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films