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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... Experiment and theory are intertwined whenever possible although there is little detailed discussion of technique. Explicit references are cited whenever theoretical formulae are quoted without derivation. For experimental detail, the ...
... Experiment and theory are intertwined whenever possible although there is little detailed discussion of technique. Explicit references are cited whenever theoretical formulae are quoted without derivation. For experimental detail, the ...
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... experiments which led him to propose a qualitative theory of catalytic action (a term coined in 1836 by Berzelius) ... experimental methods necessary for high vacuum studies, he introduced the concepts of the adsorption chemical bond ...
... experiments which led him to propose a qualitative theory of catalytic action (a term coined in 1836 by Berzelius) ... experimental methods necessary for high vacuum studies, he introduced the concepts of the adsorption chemical bond ...
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... experimental activity. A sophisticated theory of crystal growth (Burton & Cabrera, 1949) motivated endeavors in that field while Cyril Stanley Smith's influential paper on “Grains, Phases and Interfaces' (Smith, 1948) alerted much of ...
... experimental activity. A sophisticated theory of crystal growth (Burton & Cabrera, 1949) motivated endeavors in that field while Cyril Stanley Smith's influential paper on “Grains, Phases and Interfaces' (Smith, 1948) alerted much of ...
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... experimental technique for the determination of the chemical composition of a 'clean' surface (Duke, 1984). This is not to say that a great deal of useful information was not obtained about practical rectifying junctions during this ...
... experimental technique for the determination of the chemical composition of a 'clean' surface (Duke, 1984). This is not to say that a great deal of useful information was not obtained about practical rectifying junctions during this ...
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... experiments, performed almost exclusively for bulk matter, established that undisturbed macroscopic systems spontaneously ... experimental observations are available. Therefore, we must inquire at the outset whether an independent ...
... experiments, performed almost exclusively for bulk matter, established that undisturbed macroscopic systems spontaneously ... experimental observations are available. Therefore, we must inquire at the outset whether an independent ...
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