Theoretical Surface Science
Subtitle: A Microscopic Perspective
By: by Axel Gro€
Series: Advanced Texts in Physics; Advanced Texts in Physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9783662050439; 9783662050415
Subjects: Engineering; Surfaces (Physics)
Description: Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in the theoretical treatment of surfaces and processes on surfaces. A variety of surface properties can now be described from first principles, i.e. without invoking any empirical parameters. In this book the theoretical concepts and computational tools necessary and relevant for a microscopic approach to the theoretical description of surface science is presented. Based on the fundamental theoretical entity, the Hamiltonian, a hierarchy of theoretical methods will be introduced. Furthermore, a detailed discussion of surface phenomena is given, making the book suitable for both graduate students and for experimentalists seeking an overview of the theoretical concepts in surface science.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Hamiltonian; title: Electronic Structure Methods and Total Energies; title: Structure and Energetics of Clean Surfaces; title: Adsorption on Surfaces; title: Gas-Surface Dynamics; title: Kinetic Modelling of Processes on Surfaces; title: Electronically Non-adiabatic Processes; title: Perspectives.