Surface Science

Course 147143

Molecules on a metal surface

Picture: Marco Grünewald

Information

Lecture and Seminar given by Dr. Roman Forker
Seminar: Thursday 8:50 - 9:50 a.m.
Lecture: Thursday 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Language: English
Exam: to be announced

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Introduction
Preparation of well-defined surfaces
- Ultra high vacuum (UHV)
- Preparation techniques
Geometrical structure of surfaces
- Classification of periodic surfaces
- Reconstruction and relaxation
- Adsorbate superstructures (epitaxy)
- Defects
- Quasicrystals
Processes at surfaces
- Adsorption, desorption, diffusion
- Bonding at surfaces
- TDS
Diffraction methods
- LEED (geometric description) incl. distortion correction
- I(V)-LEED (dynamic description)
- RHEED
- GIFAD (He diffraction)
Electronic structure of surfaces
- Bloch theorem
- Surface brillouin zone (SBZ)
- Surface states and resonances
- Image potential states
- Work function
Electron microscopy
- LEEM
- PEEM
Scanning probe methods
- Basics
- STM
- Manipulation of atoms and molecules
- STHM
- STS: I(V) spectroscopy, z(V) spectroscopy
- AFM
Electron spectroscopy
- XPS, ESCA
- AES, SAM
- NEXAFS
- Basics of the determination of band structures
- ARUPS, orbital tomography
- IPES
- 2PPE
- HREELS
Optical spectroscopy
- Absorption (UV/VIS, IRAS)
- Raman
- PL and PLE
- DRS
- RAS, ellipsometry

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