Contents

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• Introduction and Ultra High Vacuum (UHV)
  • Format of this lecture series
  • Introduction
  • Some Surface Science books and www-links
  • Ultra High Vacuum (UHV)
    • Vacuum requirements
    • Pumping and bakeout[7]
    • Pressure measurement[7]
    • Materials and construction[7]
    • Chemical analysis of the rest gas[7]
  • Further reading
• Electron spectroscopy
  • Introduction
  • Why electrons: The mean free path
  • Electron sources and analysers
  • Electrons in solids: elastic and inelastic scattering
    • The dielectric function
    • Phonons
    • Excitons
    • Interband transitions
    • Bulk and surface plasmons
    • Core levels
  • Concluding remarks
  • Further reading
    • Desorption
    • Adsorption-desorption equilibrium
  • Single-crystal adsorption calorimetry
  • Chemical reactions and catalysis
  • Further reading
• Surface Structure
  • Surface Thermodynamics and general crystal shape
  • Surface geometry: truncated bulk, relaxation, reconstruction, defects and super-structures
    • General phenomena
    • Lattice and reciprocal lattice
  • Low energy electron diffraction (LEED), LEED patterns and quantitative structure determination
    • Instrumentation
    • Diffraction pattern and their analysis
      • Diffraction from a two-dimensional lattice
      • Diffraction from a surface
    • Interpretation of LEED patterns
    • Quantitative structure determination
  • Some examples from LEED structure determination
    • Metal surfaces
    • Semiconductor surfaces
    • Insulator surfaces
  • Other scattering techniques
    • Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS and Surface EXAFS (SEXAFS)
    • EXAFS
    • SEXAFS
  • Photoelectron diffraction (PhD, PED)
    • Introduction
    • Simple Theory
    • Structure determination: experimental results
      • Angle-scan photoelectron diffraction: forward scattering
      • Scanned-energy mode photoelectron diffraction: backscattering
    • Suggested reading
  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy
    • Basic principle and experimental setup
    • Theory of operation
    • Clean metal surfaces
    • Adsorbates on metal surfaces
    • Adsorbate induced reconstruction of metal surfaces
    • Semiconductor surfaces
    • Insulator surfaces
    • Other applications and further instrumental development
  • Further reading
• The electronic structure of surfaces
  • Work function
  • Electronic surface states: basic ideas
  • Measuring the electronic structure of surfaces with angle-resolved photoemission
    • Introduction
    • The photoemission process
      • Theory
      • Photoexcitation from molecules
      • Photo-excitation in a periodic potential
    • Instrumentation
    • The three step model
    • Band mapping: 2d bands and 3d bands
    • Some surface states investigated by ARPES
      • Clean metal surfaces
      • Adsorbate covered metal surfaces
      • Semiconductor surfaces
      • Semimetal surfaces
  • Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy
  • Further Reading
• Optical properties of surfaces
  • Reflection of Light at a Surface
  • Polaritons
  • Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy (RAS)
  • Second Harmonic Generation
• Vibrational properties of surfaces
  • Introduction
  • Electron scattering: EELS
  • Optical spectroscopy: IRAS
  • He Atom scattering
  • Vibrational spectroscopy with the STM
  • Further reading
• References
• Index
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