Roald Hoffmann

Solids and surfaces

• Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VCH
• ISBN-13: 9780895737090
• Artikelnr.: 43852071

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Orbitals and Bands in One Dimension
Bloch Functions, k, Band Structures
Band Width
See How they Run
An Eclipsed Stack of Pt(II) Square Planar Complexes
The Fermi Level
More Dimensions, At Least Two
Setting Up a Surface Problem
Density of States
Where Are The Electrons?
The Detective Work of Tracing Molecule-Surface Interactions: Decomposition
of the DOS
Where Are the Bonds?
A Solid State Sample Problem: ThCr_2Si_2 Structure
The Frontier Orbital Perspective
Orbital Interaction on a Surface
A Case Study: CO on Ni(100)
Barriers to Chemisorption
Chemisorption Is a Compromise
Frontiers Orbitals in Three-Dimensional Extended Structures
More Than One Electronic Unit in the Unit Cell, Folding Bands
Making Bonds in a Crystal
The Peierls Distortion
A Brief Excursion into the Third Dimension
Qualitative Reasoning About Orbital Interactions on Surfaces
The Fermi Level Matters
Another Methodology and Some Credits
What's New in the Solid
References
Index