Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films

✍ Scribed by Hans Lüth (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 586
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics
• Edition: 5ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin film physics. As in previous editions the preparation of surfaces and thin films, their atomic and morphological, their vibronic and electronic properties as well as fundamentals of adsorption are treated. Because of their importance in modern information technology and nanostructure physics particular emphasis is paid to electronic surface and interface states, semiconductor space charge layers and heterostructures as well as to superconductor/semiconductor interfaces and magnetic thin films. The latter topic was significantly extended in this new edition by more details about the giant magnetoresistance and a section about the spin-transfer torque mechanism including one new problem as exercise. Two new panels about Kerr-effect and spin-polarized scanning tunnelling microscopy were added, too. Furthermore, the meanwhile important group III-nitride surfaces and high-k oxide/semiconductor interfaces are shortly discussed in this new 5th edition of the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Surface and Interface Physics: Its Definition and Importance....Pages 1-28
Preparation of Well-Defined Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films....Pages 29-65
Morphology and Structure of Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films....Pages 67-131
Scattering from Surfaces and Thin Films....Pages 133-213
Surface Phonons....Pages 215-251
Electronic Surface States....Pages 253-322
Space-Charge Layers at Semiconductor Inferfaces....Pages 323-376
Metal–Semiconductor Junctions and Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 377-433
Collective Phenomena at Interfaces:Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism....Pages 435-515
Adsorption on Solid Surfaces....Pages 517-559
Back Matter....Pages 561-577

✦ Subjects

Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films;Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films;Semiconductors;Magnetism, Magnetic Materials;Solid State Physics;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials