Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films

• Main Author: Lüth, Hans (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Semiconductors.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Materials science.; Materials > Surfaces.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.

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, their vibronic and electronic properties as well as fundamentals of adsorption are treated....

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.