Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films

• Main Author: Lüth, Hans (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 6th ed. 2015.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Solid state physics.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Materials science.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.; Solid State Physics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. As in previous editions the preparation of surfaces and thin films, their atomic and morphological structure, their vibronic and electronic properties as well as fundamentals of adsorption are...

Table of Contents:

• Surface and Interface Physics: Its Definition and Importance
• Preparation of Well-Defined Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
• Morphology and Structure of Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
• Scattering from Surfaces and Thin Films
• Surface Phonons
• Electronic Surface States
• Space-Charge Layers at Semiconductor Inferfaces
• Metal–Semiconductor Junctions and Semiconductor Heterostructures
• Collective Phenomena at Interfaces:Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism
• Adsorption on Solid Surfaces.