Specimen Handling, Preparation, and Treatments in Surface Characterization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Czanderna, Alvin W. (Editor), Powell, Cedric J. (Editor), Madey, Theodore E. (Editor), Hercules, David M. (Editor), Yates, John T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1998.
• Series: Methods of Surface Characterization ; 4
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Analytical chemistry.; Physical chemistry.; Chemical engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials science.; Analytical Chemistry.; Physical Chemistry.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.; Electrical Engineering.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

With the development in the 1960s of ultrahigh vacuum equipment and techniques and electron, X-ray, and ion beam techniques to determine the structure and composition of interfaces, activities in the field of surface science grew nearly exponentially. Today surface science impacts all major fields o...

Table of Contents:

• Ultrahigh Vacuum and Vacuum Compatibility of Materials
• Cryogenic Sample Transfer for Preservation of Surface Chemistry
• Specimen Handling: Cleaning and Processing
• Atomically Clean Surfaces of Elemental Solids
• Specimen Treatments: Surface Preparation of Metal Compound Materials (Mainly Oxides)
• In Situ Processing by Gas or Alkali Metal Dosing and by Cleavage
• Chemical Modification of Surfaces
• Physical and Chemical Methods for Thin-Film Deposition and Epitaxial Growth.