Advanced Texts in Physics

By: Friedhelm Bechstedt

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Hardcover | 11 July 2003

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This comprehensive and innovative text provides an understanding of the geometric and electronic structure of surfaces. It addresses the surfaces of covalent and ionic solids and also metals. The book emphasizes fundamental aspects, such as the principles of surface crystallography and thermodynamics, the forces driving the rearrangement of the atoms, and the relationship between bonding and electronic structure. The book illuminates the relationship between surface orientation, chemistry, energetics, and the resulting properties. The text includes a discussion of elementary excitations at surfaces, their description and measurement. The general physical arguments and methods presented in the book will also allow the reader to analyse novel surfaces and interfaces of new materials. This makes the book an indispensable reference to all those studying growth, surface-molecule interactions, self-assembled structures, property engineering and materials development.

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From the reviews: "This book contains quite exhaustive information and allows the reader to take confidence with the typical concepts of surface science, both from the theoretical and the experimental points of view ! . The attempt to shed light at graduate-student level on such an important and recent topic from a theoretical point of view is extremely positive and is the major value of the book. ! Readers at any levels, from graduate students to more experienced researchers, could gain insight from this book." (Prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni, ChemPhysChem, Vol. 6 (3), 2005)

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Symmetry	p. 1
Model Surfaces	p. 1
Surface Versus Bulk	p. 1
The Surface as a Physical Object	p. 1
Two-Dimensional Crystals	p. 3
Lattice Planes of Bulk Crystals	p. 3
Oriented Slabs	p. 8
Ideal Surfaces. Planar Point Groups	p. 11
Real Surfaces: Reconstruction and Relaxation	p. 16
Superlattices at Surfaces	p. 19
Wood Notation	p. 20
Symmetry Classification	p. 25
Reciprocal Space	p. 29
Direct and Reciprocal Lattices	p. 29
Brillouin Zones	p. 35
Projection of 3D Onto 2D Brillouin Zones	p. 37
Symmetry of Points and Lines in Reciprocal Space	p. 41
Thermodynamics	p. 45
Kinetic Processes and Surfaces in Equilibrium	p. 45
Thermodynamic Relations for Surfaces	p. 46
Thermodynamic Potentials	p. 46
Surface Modification of Thermodynamic Potentials	p. 48
Surface Tension and Surface Stress	p. 49
Equilibrium Shape of Small Crystals	p. 51
Anisotropy of Surface Energy	p. 51
Absolute Values for Surface Energies	p. 55
Wulff Construction	p. 57
Surface Energy and Morphology	p. 59
Facetting and Roughening	p. 59
3D Versus 2D Growth	p. 60
Formation of Quantum Dots	p. 63
Stoichiometry Dependence	p. 66
Thermodynamic Approach	p. 66
Approximations for Surface Energies	p. 67
Chemical Potentials	p. 69
Phase Diagrams	p. 74
Stability of Adsorbates	p. 78
Bonding and Energetics	p. 81
Orbitals and Bonding	p. 81
One-Electron Picture	p. 81
Tight-Binding Approach	p. 82
Atomic Orbitals and Their Interaction	p. 85
Bonding Hybrids	p. 89
Bonds and Bands	p. 94
Dangling Bonds	p. 97
Formation of Dangling Hybrids	p. 97
Influence on Electronic States	p. 98
Total Energy and Atomic Forces	p. 102
Basic Approximations	p. 102
Potential Energy Surface and Forces	p. 103
Surface Diffusion	p. 105
Quantitative Description of Structure and Stability	p. 109
Density Functional Theory	p. 109
Band-Structure and Interaction Contributions	p. 112
Modeling of Surfaces	p. 114
Bond Breaking: Accompanying Charge Transfers and Atomic Displacements	p. 122
Characteristic Changes in Total Energy	p. 122
Energy Gain Due to Structural and Configurational Changes	p. 125
Energy Gain and Electron Transfer	p. 129
Reconstruction Elements	p. 133
Reconstruction and Bonding	p. 133
Metallic Bonds	p. 133
Strong Ionic Bonds	p. 135
Mixed Covalent and Ionic Bonds	p. 136
Principles of Semiconductor Surface Reconstruction	p. 138
Electron Counting Rules	p. 141
Chains	p. 143
Zig-Zag Chains of Cations and Anions	p. 143
[pi]-bonded Chains	p. 150
Seiwatz Chains	p. 156
Dimers	p. 158
Symmetric Dimers	p. 158
Asymmetric Dimers	p. 163
Heterodimers	p. 166
Bridging Groups	p. 168
Adatoms and Adclusters	p. 170
Isolated Adatoms	p. 170
Adatoms Accompanied by Rest Atoms	p. 172
Adatoms Combined with Other Reconstruction Elements	p. 176
Trimers	p. 180
Tetramers	p. 183
Elementary Excitations I: Single Electronic Quasiparticles	p. 187
Electrons and Holes	p. 187
Excitation and Quasiparticle Character	p. 187
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy	p. 188
Photoemission Spectroscopy and Inverse Photoemission	p. 194
Satellites	p. 199
Many-Body Effects	p. 201
Quasiparticle Equation	p. 201
Quasiparticle Shifts and Spectral Weights	p. 203
Screening Near Surfaces	p. 207
Quasiparticle Surface States	p. 211
Surface Barrier	p. 211
Characteristic Energies	p. 214
State Localization	p. 217
Quasiparticle Bands and Gaps	p. 221
Strong Electron Correlation	p. 225
Image States	p. 225
Mott-Hubbard Bands	p. 231
Elementary Excitations II: Pair and Collective Excitations	p. 237
Probing Surfaces by Excitations	p. 237
Optical Spectroscopies	p. 237
Light Propagation in Surfaces	p. 240
Electron Energy Losses	p. 243
Raman Scattering	p. 250
Electron-Hole Pairs: Excitons	p. 254
Polarization Function	p. 254
Two-Particle Hamiltonian	p. 255
Excitons	p. 258
Surface Exciton Bound States	p. 262
Surface-Modified Bulk Excitons	p. 265
Plasmons	p. 269
Intraband Excitations	p. 269
Plasma Oscillations	p. 270
Surface Modifications	p. 270
Phonons	p. 273
Harmonic Lattice Dynamics	p. 273
Surface and Bulk Modes	p. 276
Rayleigh Waves	p. 278
Fuchs-Kliewer Phonons	p. 281
Influence of Relaxation and Reconstruction	p. 285
Elementary Excitations for Reduced Dimension	p. 290
Defects	p. 293
Realistic and Ideal Surfaces	p. 293
Point Defects	p. 294
Vacancies	p. 294
Impurities	p. 300
Antisites	p. 302
Line Defects: Steps	p. 303
Geometry and Notation	p. 303
Steps on Si(100) Surfaces	p. 306
Steps on Si(111) Surfaces	p. 310
Planar Defects: Stacking Faults	p. 312
Defect, Reconstruction Element or Bulk Property?	p. 312
Si on Si(111)[radical 3] x [radical 3]-B	p. 313
References	p. 317
Index	p. 337
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