Largely due to its technological importance, the physics of surfaces and interfaces is a subject that is becoming a standard part of the senior undergraduate curriculum. This book is one of the first student texts describing the essential theoretical foundations of the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces. The didactic approach and the exercises accompanying every chapter will be particularly appreciated by the student.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. General Methods for Calculating the Electronic Structure of Surfaces.- 3. Transition Metal Surfaces.- 4. Electronic States at Covalent Semiconductor Surfaces.- 5. Surfaces of Compound Semiconductors.- 6. Chemisorption on Semiconductor Surfaces.- 7. Interfaces.- 8. Surface Phonons.- Solutions to Exercises.- References.