Equilibrium Structure and Properties of Surfaces and Interfaces

Herausgegeben:Gonis, A.; Stocks, G. M.

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Produktbeschreibung

It is almost self-evident that surface and interface science, coupled with the electronic structure of bulk materials, playa fundamental role in the understanding of materials properties. If one is to have any hope of understanding such properties as catalysis, microelectronic devices and contacts, wear, lubrication, resistance to corrosion, ductility, creep, intragranular fracture, toughness and strength of steels, adhesion of protective oxide scales, and the mechanical properties of ceramics, one must address a rather complex problem involving a number of fundamental parameters: the atomic and electronic structure, the energy and chemistry of surface and interface regions, diffusion along and across interfaces, and the response of an interface to stress. The intense need to gain an understanding of the properties of surfaces and interfaces is amply attested to by the large number of conferences and workshops held on surface and interface science. Because of this need, the fields of surface and interface science have been established in their own right, although their development presently lags behind that of general materials science associated with bulk, translationally invariant systems. There are good reasons to expect this situation to change rather dramatically in the next few years. Existing techniques for investigating surfaces and interfaces have reached maturity and are increasingly being applied to systems of practical relevance. New techniques are still being created, which drastically widen the scope of applicability of surface and interface studies. On the experimental side, new microscopies are bearing fruit.

Produktdetails

• Nato Science Series B: 300
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4613-6499-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9781461364993
• ISBN-10: 146136499X
• Artikelnr.: 39154662

Inhaltsangabe

X-Ray Scattering from Surfaces and Interfaces.- Scanning Tunnelin Microscopy.- Atomistic Structure of Internal Interfaces by High Resolution Electron Microscopy.- Atomistic Simulations of Surfaces and Interfaces.- Analytic Bond Order Potentials within Tight Binding Hückel Theory.- Topological Theory of Line Defects on Crystal Surfaces, and their Interactions with Bulk and Interfacial Defects.- Theory of Electron States at Surfaces and Interfaces.- Embedding for Surfaces and Interfaces.- Low-Energy Electron Diffraction and Electron Holography: Experiment and Theory.- Magnetic Phase Transitions at and Between Interfaces.- Surface and Magnetic Effects in Core Level Photoemission.- Ground State Results of Ferromagnetic Monolayers.- Quasielastic Neutron Scattering Study of Rotational Diffusion of Methane Adsorbed on MGO(100).- Low Energy Ion Scattering at Extremely Low Ion Doses.- X-Ray Photoelectron Diffraction Study of a High-Temperature Surface Phase Transition on Ge(111).- X-Ray and Light Scattering Studies of Electrode Surfaces and Interfaces.- Point to Point Resolution in Scanning Auger Electron Spectroscopy at High Primary Beam Energies for Surface and Interface Analysis.- Surface Related Electronic States on Cleaved HgSe and CdSe Surfaces as Observed by Means of Photoemission Yield Spectroscopy.- Volume and Interfacial Properties of Metal/Rare Earth Oxide/Metal Structures.- Excitation Spectra of Adsorbates on Dielectric Surfaces.- Corona Polarization Effects on Polymer Surfaces.- The Real-Space Multiple-Scattering Theory: A First-Principles Method for the Computation of the Electronic Structure of Extended Defects.