Metal Clusters at Surfaces
Subtitle: Structure, Quantum Properties, Physical Chemistry
By: by Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer
Series: Springer Series in Cluster Physics; Springer series in cluster physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783642630644; 9783642571695
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry; Nanotechnology; Physics; Surfaces (Physics)
Description: Numerous experiments and calculations have shown that isolated metal clusters possess many interesting features, quite different from those known from surface and solid- state physics or from atomic and molecular physics. The technological exploitation of these new properties, e.g. in miniature electronic or mechanical components, requires the cluster to be brought into an environment such as an encapsulating matrix or a surface. Due to the interaction with the contact medium, the properties of the clusters may change or even disappear. Thus the physics of cluster-on-surface systems -- the main subject of this book -- is of fundamental importance. The book addresses a wide audience, from the newcomer to the expert. Starting from fundamental concepts of adsorbate-surface interactions, the modification of electronic properties through electron confinement, and concepts of cluster production, it elucidates the distinct properties of the new metallic nanostructures.
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Table of contents: title: Confinement and Size Effects in Free Clusters; title: Fundamentals of Adsorbate-Surface Interactions; title: Growth of Metal Clusters at Surfaces; title: Collision of Clusters with Surfaces; title: Electronic Level Structure of Metal Clusters at Surfaces; title: Conductance Quantisation in Metallic Point Contacts; title: Magnetism of Nanometer-Sized Particles and Clusters; title: Physical Chemistry of Supported Clusters; title: Application of Clusters to the Fabrication of Silicon Nanostructures.