Surface Science: Lectures on Basic Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by F. A. Ponce, M. Cardona (auth.), Dr. Fernando A. Ponce, Professor Dr. Drs. h.c. Manuel Cardona (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 490
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics 62
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book "surface science" is understood in a broad sense, taken to include two-dimensional structures such as thin films and superlattices. Thecontributions reflect current research activities in surface and thin-film science in Latin-America, presenting a clear picture of the research centers, equipment and expertise available in the region in this rapidly developing field of physics. The topics treated cover the whole spectrum of the subject, with the latest theoretical results beingreported alongside details of industrial applications such as materials characterization and photovoltaic cells. Surface scientists, engineers and research admistrators will find this volume of interest.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Sixth Latin American Symposium on Surface Physics....Pages 3-7
Professor Nicolás Cabrera Sanchez (1913–1989): A Family Perspective of His Scientific Career....Pages 9-15
Don Nicolás Cabrera in Mexico....Pages 17-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Dynamical Response of an Overlayer of Alkali-Metal Atoms Adsorbed on a Free-Electron Metal Surface....Pages 23-35
Self-Diffusion by Place Exchange on Smooth Surfaces....Pages 37-39
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble....Pages 41-48
Surface Normal Modes of a “Real” Electron Gas....Pages 49-58
On Plasmon Dispersion Measurements by EELS....Pages 59-65
The Electronic Band Structure of Penrose Lattices: A Renormalization Approach....Pages 67-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Spin vs Charge Asymmetry in the Dimers of the Si(100)-2×1 Surface....Pages 73-82
HRTEM of Decahedral Gold Particles....Pages 83-92
The Structure of Gold Icosahedral Nanoclusters....Pages 93-97
Reflection Electron Microscopy and Reflection Electron Diffraction in the Electron Microscope....Pages 99-103
Studies of Chemisorption with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope....Pages 105-114
Automation and Control of a Commercial Scanning Tunneling Microscope....Pages 115-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Electron and Photon Stark Ladders in Finite Solids....Pages 121-126
Electron Energy Loss in STEM Spectra....Pages 127-134
Chemical Information from Auger Electron Spectroscopy....Pages 135-143
Electron Energy Loss Studies of Surface Phonons on Crystal Surfaces....Pages 145-157
Auger Electron Spectroscopy Measurements on Na β″ -Alumina Crystals....Pages 159-162
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Forward Focusing Effect in the Elastic Scattering of Electrons from Cu(001)....Pages 163-164
XPS Characterization of Nitrogen-Implanted Titanium with Pulsed Ion Beams....Pages 165-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Microscopic Phenomena in Epitaxy....Pages 169-181
Competition Between Nucleation and Two-Dimensional Step Growth in Molecular Beam Epitaxy....Pages 183-185
Fermi Level Readjustments on Adsorption and Interface Formation....Pages 187-193
Effective Dielectric Response of a Composite with Aligned Ellipsoidal Inclusions....Pages 195-201
Heat Capacity Measurements of p-H 2 and o-D 2 Adsorbed on Graphite at Low Temperatures....Pages 203-205
The Growth of Cobalt on Cu(100): An Angle Resolved Auger Electron Spectroscopy Study....Pages 207-210
Water Adsorption on Copper: Artifacts Emerging During AES....Pages 211-215
Model Calculations of the Indirect Interaction Between Chemisorbed Atoms....Pages 217-220
Manifestation of Non-equilibrium Behavior in Thermal Desorption Dynamics....Pages 221-225
The First Stages of Oxidation of Polycrystalline Cobalt Studied with Electron Spectroscopies....Pages 227-228
Cluster Model for the Interaction of K with Si(100)....Pages 229-230
A Model to Consider Clustering Effects for Composites....Pages 231-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Solar Energy Materials: Survey and Some Examples....Pages 237-248
The Optical Response of Composites at Low Filling Fractions: A New Diagrammatic Summation....Pages 249-255
Determination of Impurity Content in SnO 2 Thin Films Using Nuclear Reactions....Pages 257-263
Electrochromic dc Sputtered Nickel-Oxide-Based Films: Optical Structural, and Electrochemical Characterization....Pages 265-273
Photoluminescence Characterization of the Crystalline Quality in Intrinsic GaAs Epitaxial Layers....Pages 275-283
Optical Properties of Thin Films of Polymerized Acetylene Deposited by dc and rf Glow Discharge....Pages 285-287
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Incoherent Light Assisted CuInSe 2 Thin Film Processing....Pages 289-293
A Study of the Dispersive Behavior of an Anisotropic Gold Film on Mica....Pages 295-300
A Non-homogeneous Thin Film Model and the Evaluation of Its Properties by Ellipsometric Methods....Pages 301-303
Computer Aided Ellipsometry Applied to Thin Films....Pages 305-306
Electrical Resistance in Hydrogenated Nb Thin Films....Pages 307-309
Interdiffusion of Cu-In Films Studied by the Resistometric Method....Pages 311-313
Structure and Optical Absorption of Li y V 2 O 5 Thin Films....Pages 315-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Phonons in Semiconductor Superlattices....Pages 319-343
Dispersive Transient Charge Carrier Transport in Polycrystalline Films of CdTe....Pages 345-352
Fabrication and Theoretical Simulation of Cu(In, Ga)Se 2 /(ZnCd)S Thin Film Solar Cells....Pages 353-360
Photoelectric Response of Thin Films for Solar Cells....Pages 361-367
Characterization of Palladium Contacts to a-Si:H and a-Si:N:H....Pages 369-373
Chemical Homogeneity and Charge Transfer in Amorphous Si-N Alloys....Pages 375-376
Photocurrent Oscillations in a-SiC:H Double Barrier Devices Exhibiting Negative Differential Resistance....Pages 377-380
Complex Refractive Index of a-Si:F Thin Films....Pages 381-383
Bonding Structure of Amorphous SiN x :H Films....Pages 385-386
TFTs with an a-SiC x :H Insulator Layer....Pages 387-390
Thermal Depth Profiling of Solar Cells by Acoustic Calorimetry....Pages 391-396
Study of the Optical Properties of CdTe Thin Films Grown by rf Sputtering....Pages 397-400
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Metallic Superlattices: Structural and Elastic Properties....Pages 403-409
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Analysis of the Tight-Binding Description of the Structure of Metallic 2D Systems....Pages 411-418
Magneto—Electro Optical Absorption of a Semiconductor Superlattice....Pages 419-422
A Tight-Binding Study of Interface States in Ultra-Thin Quantum Wells of HgTe in CdTe....Pages 423-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Local Pair Phenomenological Approach to the Normal State Properties of High T c Superconductors....Pages 431-441
Low Dimensional Magnetism....Pages 443-451
Phase Transitions in Ultrathin Films....Pages 453-462
Magnetotunneling Current Through Semiconductor Microstructures....Pages 463-468
Preparation and Properties of High-T c Superconducting Bi(Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thick Films by a Melting-Quenching-Annealing Method....Pages 469-472
Theoretical Analysis of Surface States in Ta(100)....Pages 473-475
Magneto-Optical Studies of Ultrathin Fe/W(100) Films....Pages 477-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Chemisorption Studies of Catalytic Reactions....Pages 483-489
Catalytic Behavior of Perovskite-Type Oxides....Pages 491-496
Implanted Tin Oxide Thin Films for Selective Gas Sensing....Pages 497-504
Detection of Elementary Particles Using Superconducting Transition-Edge Phonon Sensors on Silicon Crystals....Pages 505-513
Characterization of Corrosion Film in Galvanized Steel Exposed to Atmospheric Corrosion....Pages 515-521
Back Matter....Pages 523-525

✦ Subjects

Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Physical Chemistry