Lecture Notes on Surface Science

Philip Hofmann

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• 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)
  • Further reading
• Electron spectroscopy
  • Introduction
  • Why electrons: The mean free path
  • Electron sources and analysers
  • Electrons in solids: elastic and inelastic scattering
  • Concluding remarks
  • Further reading
  • 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
  • Low energy electron diffraction (LEED), LEED patterns and quantitative structure determination
  • Some examples from LEED structure determination
  • Other scattering techniques
  • Photoelectron diffraction (PhD, PED)
  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy
  • Further reading
• The electronic structure of surfaces
  • Work function
  • Electronic surface states: basic ideas
  • Measuring the electronic structure of surfaces with angle-resolved photoemission
  • 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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