Atomic and Electronic Structure of Surfaces - Theoretical Foundations

Surfaces and interfaces play an increasingly important role in today's solid state devices. In this book the reader is introduced, in a didactic manner, to the essential theoretical aspects of the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces. The book does not pretend to give a complete overview of contemporary problems and methods. Instead, the authors strive to provide simple but qualitatively useful arguments that apply to a wide variety of cases. The emphasis of the book is on semiconductor surfaces and interfaces but it also includes a thorough treatment of transition metals, a general discussion of phonon dispersion curves, and examples of large computational calculations. The exercises accompanying every chapter will be of great benefit to the student.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. General Methods for Calculating the Electronic Structure of Surfaces.- 3. Transition Metal Surfaces.- 4. Electronic States at Covalent Semiconductor Surfaces.- 5. Surfaces of Compound Semiconductors.- 6. Chemisorption on Semiconductor Surfaces.- 7. Interfaces.- 8. Surface Phonons.- Solutions to Exercises.- References.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Friedel, Miche Lannoo, Michel Lannoo
• Assisted by: Manue Cardona (Editor), Manuel Cardona (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642080944
• ISBN: 978-3-642-08094-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Illustrations: XII, 256 p.
• Series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences; Springer Series in Surface Sciences
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics