TY - BOOK AU - Lüth,Hans ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films T2 - Graduate Texts in Physics, SN - 9783319107561 AV - QC176.8.S8 U1 - 530.417 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - physics KW - Solid State Physics KW - Surfaces (Physics) KW - Interfaces (Physical sciences) KW - Thin films KW - Materials Science KW - Physics KW - Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films KW - Characterization and Evaluation of Materials N1 - Surface and Interface Physics: Its Definition and Importance -- Preparation of Well-Defined Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films -- Morphology and Structure of Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films -- Scattering from Surfaces and Thin Films -- Surface Phonons -- Electronic Surface States -- Space-Charge Layers at Semiconductor Inferfaces -- Metal–Semiconductor Junctions and Semiconductor Heterostructures -- Collective Phenomena at Interfaces:Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism -- Adsorption on Solid Surfaces N2 - This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. As in previous editions the preparation of surfaces and thin films, their atomic and morphological structure, their vibronic and electronic properties as well as fundamentals of adsorption are treated. Because of their importance in modern information technology and nanostructure research, particular emphasis is paid to electronic surface and interface states, semiconductor space charge layers and heterostructures. A special chapter of the book is devoted to collective phenomena at interfaces and in thin films such as superconductivity and magnetism. The latter topic includes the meanwhile important issues giant magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque mechanism, both effects being of high interest in information technology. In this new edition, for the first time, the effect of spin-orbit coupling on surface states is treated. In this context the class of the recently detected topological insulators, materials of significant importance for spin electronics, are discussed. Particular emphasis, hereby, is laid on the new type of topologically protected surface states with well-defined spin orientation. Furthermore, some important well established experimental techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS), which were missing so far in earlier editions, were added in this new 6th edition of the book UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10756-1 ER -