Basic surfaces and their analysis / Lyudmila V. Goncharova.

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"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why are surfaces important? -- 1.2. Ultra-high vacuum science and technology -- 1.3. Exercises

2. Thermodynamics of surfaces : equilibrium crystal shape -- 2.1. Surface thermodynamic functions -- 2.2. Surface tension and specific surface energy -- 2.3. Thermodynamics of surfaces -- 2.4. Curved interfaces and contact angle -- 2.5. Anisotropy of surface free energy -- 2.6. Equilibrium crystal shape -- 2.7. Summary and challenges -- 2.8. Exercises

3. Surface structure in real and reciprocal space -- 3.1. Bulk truncation structures -- 3.2. Relaxations and reconstructions -- 3.3. Classifications of two-dimensional periodic structures -- 3.4. Wood's and matrix notation for two-dimensional substrate and overlayer structures -- 3.5. Real and reciprocal space lattices -- 3.6. Summary -- 3.7. Exercises

4. Experimental probes and techniques (overview) -- 5. Electron spectroscopies and microscopies -- 5.1. Electron backscattering and diffraction -- 5.2. Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) -- 5.3. Applications and complications of LEED -- 5.4. Thermal energy atom diffraction -- 5.5. Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) -- 5.6. Low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM) -- 5.7. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) -- 5.8. Exercises

6. Photoelectron spectroscopies -- 6.1. Photoemission spectroscopy principles -- 6.2. Data interpretation : notations, work function, chemical shifts -- 6.3. Instrumentation -- 6.4. Auger electron spectroscopy and microscopy -- 6.5. Quantitative analysis -- 6.6. Exercises

7. Ion scattering and high-resolution ion depth profiling methods -- 7.1. Ion-solid interactions -- 7.2. Stopping and range of ions in matter (SRIM) -- 7.3. Sputtering -- 7.4. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and elastic recoil detection -- 7.5. Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) -- 7.6. Low- and medium-energy ion scattering -- 7.7. Exercises.

This book is an introduction to the basics of surface science. The Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli's statement, 'God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil!' emphasizes the diabolic nature of surfaces. Surfaces are the external border of materials to the external worlds, thus by exploring surfaces one can investigate the material. In the last few decades new and exciting surface properties have been explored in nanomaterials, low-dimensional structures in electronic and photonic devices and other numerous applications.

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Dr. Lyudmila V. Goncharova received her MSc degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University and her PhD degree in Chemistry from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, specializing in surface physics and thermal energy atomic scattering. She joined the University of Western Ontario as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 2007, and became an Associate Professor in 2014. Her work has been continually funded through NSERC Discovery Grants. Since 2012, Dr Goncharova has been a director of the Western Tandetron Accelerator Facility.

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