Modern Techniques of Surface Science

Understand the physical principles, strengths and limitations of the techniques used in surface science and nanoscience with this fully revised third edition.

List of contents

1. Introduction and general background concepts; 2. Methods of surface composition determination; 3. Methods of surface structure determination; 4. Surface microscopies; 5. Methods of determining surface electronic structure; 6. Characterising molecules and molecular interactions on surfaces.

About the author

D. Phil Woodruff is Professor of Physics at the University of Warwick. He has more than 40 years' experience in the development and application of surface science techniques, resulting in more than 500 publications. He has also worked at Bell Laboratories in the United States and spent 13 years in collaboration with the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. He is the recipient of several prizes and awards in the UK, USA and Germany, and in 2006 became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Summary

With this fully revised third edition, readers will understand the physical principles, strengths and limitations of the techniques used in surface science and nanoscience today. It brings together the different techniques used to determine the surface composition, surface structure, surface electronic structure, surface microstructure and nanostructure, and surface adsorption.

Product details

• Authors: D Phil Woodruff, D. P. Woodruff, D. Phil Woodruff, D. Phil (University of Warwick) Woodruff, Phil Woodruff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107023109
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02310-9
• No. of pages: 508
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter, Materials science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General