This comprehensive and innovative text provides an understanding of the geometric and electronic structure of surfaces. The book emphasizes fundamental aspects, such as the principles of surface crystallography and thermodynamics, the forces driving the rearrangement of the atoms, and the relationship between bonding and electronic structure. It especially illuminates the relationship between surface orientation, chemistry, energetics, and the resulting properties. Principles of Surface Physics develops general physical arguments and methods that enable readers to analyse novel surfaces and interfaces of new materials. This makes the book an indispensable reference to all those studying growth, surface-molecule interactions, self-assembled structures, and materials engineering.

Provides a unified and comprehensive treatment Concentrates on basic physical principles and concepts Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

1. Symmetry.- 1.1 Model Surfaces.- 1.2 Two-Dimensional Crystals.- 1.3 Reciprocal Space.- 2. Thermodynamics.- 2.1 Kinetic Processes and Surfaces in Equilibrium.- 2.2 Thermodynamic Relations for Surfaces.- 2.3 Equilibrium Shape of Small Crystals.- 2.4 Surface Energy and Morphology.- 2.5 Stoichiometry Dependence.- 3. Bonding and Energetics.- 3.1 Orbitals and Bonding.- 3.2 Dangling Bonds.- 3.3 Total Energy and Atomic Forces.- 3.4 Quantitative Description of Structure and Stability.- 3.5 Bond Breaking: Accompanying Charge Transfers and Atomic Displacements.- 4. Reconstruction Elements.- 4.1 Reconstruction and Bonding.- 4.2 Chains.- 4.3 Dimers.- 4.4 Adatoms and Adclusters.- 5. Elementary Excitations I: Single Electronic Quasiparticles.- 5.1 Electrons and Holes.- 5.2 Many-Body Effects.- 5.2.1 Quasiparticle Equation.- 5.3 Quasiparticle Surface States.- 5.4 Strong Electron Correlation.- 6. Elementary Excitations II: Pair and Collective Excitations.- 6.1 Probing Surfaces by Excitations.- 6.2 Electron-Hole Pairs: Excitons.- 6.3 Plasmons.- 6.4 Phonons.- 6.5 Elementary Excitations for Reduced Dimension.- 7. Defects.- 7.1 Realistic and Ideal Surfaces.- 7.2 Point Defects.- 7.3 Line Defects: Steps.- 7.4 Planar Defects: Stacking Faults.- References.