Defects at Oxide Surfaces

✍ Scribed by Jacques Jupille, Geoff Thornton (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 472
• Series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences 58
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the basics and characterization of defects at oxide surfaces. It provides a state-of-the-art review of the field, containing information to the various types of surface defects, describes analytical methods to study defects, their chemical activity and the catalytic reactivity of oxides. Numerical simulations of defective structures complete the picture developed. Defects on planar surfaces form the focus of much of the book, although the investigation of powder samples also form an important part. The experimental study of planar surfaces opens the possibility of applying the large armoury of techniques that have been developed over the last half-century to study surfaces in ultra-high vacuum. This enables the acquisition of atomic level data under well-controlled conditions, providing a stringent test of theoretical methods. The latter can then be more reliably applied to systems such as nanoparticles for which accurate methods of characterization of structure and electronic properties have yet to be developed. The book gives guidance to tailor oxide surfaces by controlling the nature and concentration of defects. The importance of defects in the physics and chemistry of metal oxide surfaces is presented in this book together with the prominent role of oxides in common life. The book contains contributions from leaders in the field. It serves as a reference for experts and beginners in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Numerical Simulations of Defective Structures: The Nature of Oxygen Vacancy in Non-reducible (MgO, SiO 2 , ZrO 2 ) and Reducible (TiO 2 , NiO, WO 3 ) Oxides....Pages 1-28
Atomic Scale Characterization of Defects on Oxide Surfaces....Pages 29-80
Defects on TiO 2 —Key Pathways to Important Surface Processes....Pages 81-121
Excess Electrons at Oxide Surfaces....Pages 123-147
Oxygen Defects at Reducible Oxide Surfaces: The Example of Ceria and Vanadia....Pages 149-190
The Structure and Properties of Clean Steps at Oxide Surfaces....Pages 191-214
Defects on Bulk MgO(001) Imaged by nc-AFM....Pages 215-239
Noncontact AFM Imaging of Atomic Defects on the Rutile TiO 2 (110) Surface....Pages 241-272
Defects in Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Powders....Pages 273-301
Point Defects in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance....Pages 303-326
Defects on Strontium Titanate....Pages 327-349
Dopant and Defect Induced Electronic States at In 2 O 3 Surfaces....Pages 351-400
Resistive Switching in Oxides....Pages 401-428
Photon-, Electron-, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy-Induced Defects on Oxide Surfaces....Pages 429-451
Back Matter....Pages 453-462

✦ Subjects

Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films; Optical and Electronic Materials; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Physical Chemistry