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Principles of Surface Physics

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Friedhelm Bechstedt

    1. Institut für Festkörpertheorie und Theoretische Optik, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Jena, Germany

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  • Provides a unified and comprehensive treatment
  • Concentrates on basic physical principles and concepts
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advanced Texts in Physics (ADTP)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Symmetry

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    Pages 1-44

  3. Thermodynamics

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    Pages 45-80

  4. Bonding and Energetics

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    Pages 81-131

  5. Reconstruction Elements

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    Pages 133-185

  6. Elementary Excitations I: Single Electronic Quasiparticles

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    Pages 187-236

  7. Elementary Excitations II: Pair and Collective Excitations

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    Pages 237-292

  8. Defects

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    Pages 293-315

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 317-342
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About this book

In recent decades, surface and interface physics has become an increasingly important subdiscipline within the physics of condensed matter as well as an interdisciplinary ?eld between physics, crystallography, chemistry, biology, and materials science. There are several driving forces for the development of the ?eld, among them semiconductor technology, new materials, epitaxy and chemical catalysis. The electrical and optical properties of nanostructures based on di?erent semiconductors are governed by the interfaces or, at least, by the presence of interfaces. A microscopic understanding of the growth processes requires the investigation of the surface processes at an atomic level. Elementary processes on surfaces, such as adsorption and desorption, play a key role in the understanding of heterogeneous catalysis. During the course of the surface investigations, it has been possible to observe a dramatic progress in the ability to study surfaces of materials in general, and on a microscopic scale in particular. There are two main reasons for this progress. From the experimental point of view it is largely due to the development and availability of new types of powerful microscopes. Sp- tacular advances in techniques such as scanning tunneling microscopy now allow us to observe individual atoms on surfaces, and to follow their paths with a clarity unimaginable a few years ago. From the theoretical point of view (or rather the viewpoint of simulation) progress is related to the wide availability of computers and the dramatic increase of their power.

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"This book contains quite exhaustive information and allows the reader to take confidence with the typical concepts of surface science, both from the theoretical and the experimental points of view … . The attempt to shed light at graduate-student level on such an important and recent topic from a theoretical point of view is extremely positive and is the major value of the book. … Readers at any levels, from graduate students to more experienced researchers, could gain insight from this book." (Prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni, ChemPhysChem, Vol. 6 (3), 2005)

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  • Institut für Festkörpertheorie und Theoretische Optik, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Jena, Germany

    Friedhelm Bechstedt

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