This book provides an in-depth understanding of the nature of surface states and, in particular, their relevance to the physics and chemistry of metallic surfaces. Recent experiments reveal that surface states play a key role in a wide variety of surface phenomena. Individual chapters examine the contribution of surface states to reconstruction, non-adiabatic vibrational damping, nonlinear optical response, tunneling, interaction potentials for scattering and physisorption, as well as surface and thin-film magnetism. Altogether they provide an overview of this rapidly developing field.
Contents:
- Are Surface States on Metals "Important'? (S D Kevan)
- Surface States and Chemical Reactivity of Metals (E Bertel)
- Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Application to CO on Copper Surfaces (M Head-Gordon & C Springer)
- Surface States, Surface Metal–Insulator, and Surface Insulator–Metal Transitions (E Tosatti)
- Surface States and Reconstruction of the Mo(001) Surface (J W Chung)
- The Unusual Properties of Beryllium Surfaces (R Stumpf et al.)
- STM Studies of the Scattering and Confinement of Electrons at Metal Surfaces (Ph Avouris et al.)
- Magnetic Surface States of 3d Ferromagnets (M Donath)
- Spin Polarized Photoemission Studies of Magnetic Quantum Well States (P D Johnson)
- Low-Dimensional Electronic States on Metal Surfaces: Quantum Wells and Quantum Wires (F J Himpsel et al.)
- and other papers
Readership: Graduate students and scientists in surface and solid state science, materials science and physical chemistry.
