Surfaces and interfaces play an increasingly important role in today's solid state devices. In this book the reader is introduced, in a didactic manner, to the essential theoretical aspects of the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces. The book does not pretend to give a complete overview of contemporary problems and methods. Instead, the authors strive to provide simple but qualitatively useful arguments that apply to a wide variety of cases. The emphasis of the book is on semiconductor surfaces and interfaces but it also includes a thorough treatment of transition metals, a general discussion of phonon dispersion curves, and examples of large computational calculations. The exercises accompanying every chapter will be of great benefit to the student. 1. Introduction.- 2. General Methods for Calculating the Electronic Structure of Surfaces.- 3. Transition Metal Surfaces.- 4. Electronic States at Covalent Semiconductor Surfaces.- 5. Surfaces of Compound Semiconductors.- 6. Chemisorption on Semiconductor Surfaces.- 7. Interfaces.- 8. Surface Phonons.- Solutions to Exercises.- References. Largely due to its technological importance, the physics of surfaces and interfaces is a subject that is becoming a standard part of the senior undergraduate curriculum. This book is one of the first student texts describing the essential theoretical foundations of the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces. The didactic approach and the exercises accompanying every chapter will be particularly appreciated by the student.
