Physics at surfaces / Andrew Zangwill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zangwill, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surfaces (Physics).

Surface chemistry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Summary:

Physics at surfaces is a unique graduate-level introduction to the physics and chemical physics of solid surfaces, and atoms and molecules that interact with solid surfaces.

A subject of keen scientific inquiry since the last century, surface physics emerged as an independent discipline only in the late 1960s as a result of the development of ultra-high vacuum technology and high speed digital computers. With these tools, reliable experimental measurements and theoretical calculations could at last be compared. Progress in the last decade has been truly striking.

This volume provides a synthesis of the entire field of surface physics from the perspective of a modern condensed matter physicist with a healthy interest in chemical physics. The exposition intertwines experiment and theory whenever possible, although there is little detailed discussion of technique.

This much-needed text will be invaluable to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, physical chemistry and materials science working in, or taking graduate courses in, surface science.

Contents:

0 Historical sketch 1

Part 1 Clean surfaces 5

1 Thermodynamics 7

2 Chemical analysis 20

3 Crystal structure 28

4 Electronic structure 54

5 Phase transitions 110

6 Elementary excitations 138

7 Optical properties 163

Part 2 Adsorption 183

8 Physisorption 185

9 Chemisorption 204

10 Crystal structure 232

11 Phase transitions 257

12 Electronic structure 292

13 Energy transfer 328

14 Kinetics and dynamics 360

15 Surface reactions 400

16 Epitaxy 421.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [433]-447.

ISBN:

0521321476

0521347521

OCLC:

15855885