《表面物理学概念(第2版)》

i. introduction

2. thermodynamical and statistical properties of clean surfaces

2.1 thermodynamics of a surface at equilibrium

2.2 equilibrium shape of a crystal

2.3 facetting
2.4 the roughening transition

problems

3. atomic structure of surfaces

3.1 surface crystallography

3.2 experimental techniques

problems

4. vibrations at surfaces

4.1 elastic forces in crystals

4.2 bulk modes

4.3 surface modes

4.4 spectral densities of modes
4.5 vibrational thermodynamicai functions

4.6 mean square displacements

problems

.5. electronic structure of surfaces

5.1 jeilium model
5.2 nearly free electron model-surface states
5.3 tight-binding approximation

5.4 application of the tight-binding approximation to

5.5 application of the tight-binding approximation to semiconductor surfaces
5.6 other methods

5.7 surface plasmons in metals

5.8 image potential

5.9 some further remarks on exchange and correlation energies

5.10 experimental techniques for investigating the electronic structure
5.10.2 photoemission of valence electronic states

5.10.3 inverse photoemission
5.10.4 spatially-resolved tunneling spectroscopy
5.10.5 measurement of surface plasmons
5.10.6 measurement of the work function
5.10.7 measurement of surface energies

problems

6. adsorption phenomena
6.1 thermodynamical approach

6.2 statistical methods
6.3 physisorption

6.4 chemisorption

6.5 interactions between adsorbates

6.6 electronic structure of ordered overlayers an example: o on ni(100)

problems

appendices
a. theory of scattering by a spherical potential: brief summary

b.the continued fraction technique

c.electromagnetic waves in matter

d.calculation of the variation of the total energy due to a perturbing external charge distribution within the density functional formalism

e.useful relations for the study of many body interactions

f.interaction of an electron with an electromagnetic

g.calculation of the current in a scanning tunneling microscope

h.calculation of the atomic dynamic polarizability

i.variation of the density of states due to a perturbing potential

j.energy of chemisorption in the anderson-grimley-newns model using contour integrals
k.elastic constants and elastic waves in cubic crystals

references

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