Dynamics of Gas-Surface Interaction

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Scattering of Atoms from Solid Surfaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Theory of Atom-Surface Scattering

      • V. Celli, D. Evans

      Pages 2-39

   3. He Diffraction from Semiconductor Surfaces

      • M. J. Cardillo

      Pages 40-48

   4. He Diffraction from Semiconductor Surfaces

      • M. J. Cardillo

      Pages 49-54

   5. He Diffraction from Semiconductor Surfaces

      • M. J. Cardillo

      Pages 55-60

   6. Helium Scattering from Clean and Adsorbate-Covered Metal Surfaces

      • K. H. Rieder

      Pages 61-78

   7. The Coherence Length in Molecular and Electron Beam Diffraction

      • G. Comsa

      Pages 79-83

   8. Charge Density Waves Surface Deformation Studied by Helium Atom Diffraction

      • P. Cantini

      Pages 84-92

3. Characterization of Adsorbed Phases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Phase Transitions in Surface Films

      • M. Bienfait

      Pages 94-110

   3. Universal Laws of Physical Adsorption

      • M. W. Cole, G. Vidali

      Pages 111-116

   4. The Dynamical Parameters of Desorbing Molecules

      • G. Comsa

      Pages 117-127

   5. Atomic-Beam Diffraction as a Method for Studying Two-Dimensional Solids

      • S. Iannotta

      Pages 128-141

   6. Atom Scattering from Overlayers

      • A. C. Levi

      Pages 142-151

4. Spectroscopy of Surface Optical Excitations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Surface Elementary Excitations

      • M. Šunjić

      Pages 154-185

   3. Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

      • A. Otto

      Pages 186-195

   4. Calculation of the Phonon Spectrum of the Ni(111) Surface Covered with Oxygen

      • V. Bortolani, A. Franchini, F. Nizzoli, G. Santoro

      Pages 196-206

5. Surface Phonon Spectroscopy by Atom Scattering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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In recent decades surface science has experienced a large growth in connection with the development of various experimental techniques which are able to characterize solid surfaces through the observation of the scattering of ions, electrons, photons or atoms. These methods of investigation, known under different labels such as LEED, AES, XPS, UPS, etc. have been extensively applied in describing the structure, morphology, and chemical and physical properties of crystal surfaces and interfaces of a large variety of materials of interest in solid-state physics, electronics, metallurgy, biophysics, and heterogeneous catalysis. Among these methods we wish to emphasize molecular beam scattering from solid surfaces. ~lolecular beam scattering has gone through a large development in the last ten years. In this decade a large number of laboratories have used this method to study various clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces. The technique is nonetheless quite old. It dates back to the beginning of the thirties, when Estermann and Stern performed the first atom diffraction experiment proving the wave nature of atoms. In the following years the entire subject of gas-surface interaction was considered a branch of rarefied gas dynamics and developed in connection with aerospace research. Attention was then given to the integral properties of gas-solid interactions (sticking and energy accomodation, mean momentum transfer) rather than to atom-surface scatter­ ing from well-characterized surfaces.

• Gas
• Interaction
• Molekularstrahlbeugung
• Oberfläche
• dynamics
• electronics
• surfaces

• Istituto di Fisica dell’Universita Milano, Milano, Italy

  Giorgio Benedek

• Istituto di Scienze Fisiche, Universita Genova, Genova, Italy

  Ugo Valbusa

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