Critical Phenomena at Surfaces and Interfaces: Evanescent X-Ray and Neutron Scattering

✍ Scribed by Dr. Helmut Dosch (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 126
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book deals with the application of grazing angle x-ray and neutron scattering to the study of surface-induced critical phenomena. With the advent of even more advanced synchrotron radiation sources and new sophisticated instrumentation this novel technique is expected to experience a boom. The comprehensive and detailed presentation of theoretical and experimental aspects of the scattering of evanascent x-ray and neutron waves inside a solid makes this book particularly useful for tutorial courses. Particular emphasis is put on the use of this technique to extract microscopic information (correlation functions) from the real structure of a surface, from buried and magnetic interfaces and from surface roughness.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-5
Evanescent X-ray scattering....Pages 6-31
Evanescent neutron scattering....Pages 32-57
Semi-infinite critical systems....Pages 58-81
Surface effects at first order phase transitions....Pages 82-124

✦ Subjects

Optical Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Optics; Physical Chemistry; Crystallography; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials