Atomic and Electronic Structure of Surfaces: Theoretical Foundations

✍ Scribed by Dr. Michel Lannoo, Dr. Paul Friedel (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences 16
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Surfaces and interfaces play an increasingly important role in today's solid state devices. In this book the reader is introduced, in a didactic manner, to the essential theoretical aspects of the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces. The book does not pretend to give a complete overview of contemporary problems and methods. Instead, the authors strive to provide simple but qualitatively useful arguments that apply to a wide variety of cases. The emphasis of the book is on semiconductor surfaces and interfaces but it also includes a thorough treatment of transition metals, a general discussion of phonon dispersion curves, and examples of large computational calculations. The exercises accompanying every chapter will be of great benefit to the student.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Introduction....Pages 1-24
General Methods for Calculating the Electronic Structure of Surfaces....Pages 25-55
Transition Metal Surfaces....Pages 56-82
Electronic States at Covalent Semiconductor Surfaces....Pages 83-109
Surfaces of Compound Semiconductors....Pages 110-136
Chemisorption on Semiconductor Surfaces....Pages 137-156
Interfaces....Pages 157-199
Surface Phonons....Pages 200-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-256

✦ Subjects

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Crystallography; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation