Physics at SurfacesPhysics at Surfaces is a unique graduate-level introduction to the physics and chemical physics of solid surfaces, and atoms and molecules that interact with solid surfaces. A subject of keen scientific inquiry since the last century, surface physics emerged as an independent discipline only in the late 1960s as a result of the development of ultra-high vacuum technology and high speed digital computers. With these tools, reliable experimental measurements and theoretical calculations could at last be compared. Progress in the last decade has been truly striking. This volume provides a synthesis of the entire field of surface physics from the perspective of a modern condensed matter physicist with a healthy interest in chemical physics. The exposition intertwines experiment and theory whenever possible, although there is little detailed discussion of technique. This much-needed text will be invaluable to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, physical chemistry and materials science working in, or taking graduate courses in, surface science. |
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... dissociation of various gases produced by a hot platinum wire. Three years later he joined the fledgling General Electric Research Laboratory and began a remarkable career of Scientific achievement. Langmuir's early interest in gases at ...
... dissociation of various gases produced by a hot platinum wire. Three years later he joined the fledgling General Electric Research Laboratory and began a remarkable career of Scientific achievement. Langmuir's early interest in gases at ...
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... dissociative chemisorption and soon thereafter, Gurney (1935) introduced the resonant level model of adsorbate electronic structure. The basic theory of a free metallic surface (which was to stand unchanged for over thirty years) was ...
... dissociative chemisorption and soon thereafter, Gurney (1935) introduced the resonant level model of adsorbate electronic structure. The basic theory of a free metallic surface (which was to stand unchanged for over thirty years) was ...
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