An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces is a streamlined yet comprehensive introduction that covers the basic physical properties of electronic materials, the experimental techniques used to measure them, and the theoretical methods used to understand, predict, and design them.;List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Why surfaces and interfaces of electronic materials -- Chapter 2. Semiconductor electronic and optical properties -- Chapter 3. Electrical measurements of surfaces and interfaces -- Chapter 4. Localized states at surfaces and interfaces -- Chapter 5. Ultrahigh vacuum technology -- Chapter 6. Surface and interface analysis -- Chapter 7. Surface and interface spectroscopies -- Chapter 8. Dynamical depth-dependent analysis and imaging -- Chapter 9. Electron beam diffraction and microscopy of atomic-scale geometrical structure -- Chapter 10. Scanning probe techniques -- Chapter 11. Optical spectroscopies -- Chapter 12. Electronic material surfaces -- Chapter 13. Surface electronic applications -- Chapter 14. Semiconductor heterojunctions -- Chapter 15. Metal-semiconductor interfaces -- Chapter 16. Next generation surfaces and interfaces -- Appendix A. Glossary of commonly used symbols -- Appendix B. Table of acronyms -- Appendix C. Table of physical constants and conversion factors -- Appendix D. Semiconductor properties.