Metal Clusters at Surfaces: Structure, Quantum Properties, Physical Chemistry

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Springer Series in Cluster Physics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Numerous experiments and calculations have shown that isolated metal clusters possess many interesting features, quite different from those known from surface and solid- state physics or from atomic and molecular physics. The technological exploitation of these new properties, e.g. in miniature electronic or mechanical components, requires the cluster to be brought into an environment such as an encapsulating matrix or a surface. Due to the interaction with the contact medium, the properties of the clusters may change or even disappear. Thus the physics of cluster-on-surface systems -- the main subject of this book -- is of fundamental importance. The book addresses a wide audience, from the newcomer to the expert. Starting from fundamental concepts of adsorbate-surface interactions, the modification of electronic properties through electron confinement, and concepts of cluster production, it elucidates the distinct properties of the new metallic nanostructures.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Confinement and Size Effects in Free Metal Clusters....Pages 1-35
Fundamentals of Adsorbate-Surface Interactions....Pages 37-65
Growth of Metal Clusters at Surfaces....Pages 67-105
Collision of Clusters with Surfaces: Deposition, Surface Modification and Scattering....Pages 107-150
Electronic Level Structure of Metal Clusters at Surfaces....Pages 151-173
Conductance Quantisation in Metallic Point Contacts....Pages 175-210
Magnetism of Nanometer-Sized Particles and Clusters....Pages 211-236
Physical Chemistry of Supported Clusters....Pages 237-273
Application of Clusters to the Fabrication of Silicon Nanostructures....Pages 275-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-310

✦ Subjects

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films;Physical Chemistry;Nanotechnology