Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 1986. - 603 p.
Surface crystallography plays the same fundamental role in surface science which bulk crystallography has played so successfully in solid-state physics and chemistry. The atomic-scale structure is one of the most important aspects in the understanding of the behavior of surfaces in such widely diverse fields as heterogeneous catalysis, microelectronics, adhesion, lubrication, corrosion, coatings, and solid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces.
Low-Energy Electron Diffraction or LEED has become the prime technique used to determine atomic locations at surfaces.
Our text starts with a historical sketch of the development of LEED (Chap. 1), followed by a description of experimental issues and techniques (Chap. 2). A general discussion of surface structures and their notations is given in Chap. 3, together with an analysis of the information content of the LEED pattern. The kinematic and dynamical theories of LEED are treated in Chaps. 4 and 5, respectively, while their application to structural determinations appears in Chap.
6. Several diverse examples of such surface structural determinations are presented next (Chap.7). Chaps. 8, 9, and 10 deal with LEED studies of phase transitions: order-disorder effects, chemical reactions and island formation, respectively. Probable future developments and the connection between LEED and other surface crystallographic techniques are addressed in Chap.
11. Finally, a comprehensive table and a bibliography of surface structural results are given in Chap.12.