Experimental Innovations in Surface Science: A Guide to Practical Laboratory Methods and Instruments

✍ Scribed by John T. Yates Jr. (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 637
Edition: 2
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is a new edition of a classic text on experimental methods and instruments in surface science. It offers practical insight useful to chemists, physicists, and materials scientists working in experimental surface science. This enlarged second edition contains almost 300 descriptions of experimental methods. The more than 50 active areas with individual scientific and measurement concepts and activities relevant to each area are presented in this book. The key areas covered are: Vacuum System Technology, Mechanical Fabrication Techniques, Measurement Methods, Thermal Control, Delivery of Adsorbates to Surfaces, UHV Windows, Surface Preparation Methods, High Area Solids, Safety. The book is written for researchers and graduate students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Motion in Vacuum....Pages 3-38
Sample Transfer....Pages 39-59
Electrical Connections....Pages 61-68
Pumping and Trapping....Pages 69-81
Bakeout....Pages 83-85
Behavior of UHV Systems....Pages 87-91
Mechanical Action on Samples....Pages 93-97
Gasket Seals....Pages 99-105
Leak Repairs and Detection....Pages 107-111
Specialized UHV Systems....Pages 113-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Grids....Pages 119-122
Conductive Coatings....Pages 123-125
Phosphor Screens....Pages 127-131
Thermionic Emitters....Pages 133-147
Shielding....Pages 149-153
Single Crystal Fabrication/Orientation....Pages 155-166
Tip Fabrication....Pages 167-174
Spot-Welding....Pages 175-177
Mechanical Procedures....Pages 179-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Electrons....Pages 187-209
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Ions....Pages 211-234
Photons (UV)....Pages 235-251
Kinetics of Adsorption/Adsorbate Coverages....Pages 253-257
Mass Spectrometry....Pages 259-272
Temperature-Programmed Desorption/Reaction....Pages 273-285
Gas Chromatography—Enhanced Sensitivity....Pages 287-288
Work Function, Tunneling Spectroscopy and Ellipsometry....Pages 289-304
Radioactive Adsorbates....Pages 305-307
Thin Film Deposition....Pages 309-320
Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 321-332
Calorimetric Heats of Adsorption—Single Crystals....Pages 333-336
Surface Debye Temperature....Pages 337-339
Friction and Fracture....Pages 341-345
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Heating Samples....Pages 349-380
Cooling Samples....Pages 381-404
Temperature Measurements....Pages 405-417
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Gases....Pages 421-436
Evaporation Sources....Pages 437-469
Ions....Pages 471-475
Active Gases and Species....Pages 477-496
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Electrochemical Sources and Devices....Pages 497-504
Gas Purification....Pages 505-515
Liquid Handling in UHV....Pages 517-518
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Spectroscopic Windows....Pages 521-534
Observation Windows....Pages 535-540
Front Matter....Pages 541-541
Cleaning Metal and Semiconductor Crystals—Examples....Pages 543-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Infrared Cells....Pages 555-567
Adsorption/Desorption—Thermal....Pages 569-577
Front Matter....Pages 579-579
Protecting the Vacuum System....Pages 581-588
Protecting Personnel....Pages 589-592
Back Matter....Pages 593-655

✦ Subjects

Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Physical Chemistry; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering

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