Surface Physics

SoSe 2014 - Monday 10:00 - 12:00, 0.1.01 Hörsaal B

Lecturer: Prof. Martin Weinelt

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Written test

Monday, 30. June 2014, 10:15-12:00

 God made the bulk;
the surface was invented by the devil.

Wolfgang Pauli

Practice sheets

Thursday, 10:00 -- 12:00, 0.1.01 Hörsaal B

24.04.2014 T1.pdf 15.05.2014 T2.pdf 22.05.2014 T3.pdf 12.06.2014 T4.pdf 19.06.2014 T5.pdf 26.06.2014 T6.pdf 10.07.2014 Lecture 10:15 - 12:00

Lecture slides

1. Introduction pdf
    2. Preparation of well-defined surfaces pdf
    1. Ultrahigh vacuum
    2. Preparation techniques
    3. Auger electron spectroscopy
    		 5. Raster scanning microscopy STM & AFM
    1. Principles of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
    2. Examples
    3. Spectroscopy of electron density
    4. Vibrational spectroscopy via inelastic tunneling
    5. Manipulation
    6. Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
    		 8. Electronic bands in solids and surface states pdf
    1. Bloch theorem
    2. Electronic states at surfaces
    3. Surface states
    3. Geometrical structure of surfaces pdf
    1. Classification of periodic structures
    2. Reconstruction and Relaxation
    3. Adsorbate super structures
    4. Defects
    		 6. Photoelectron spectroscopy - Overview pdf
    1. Photoionization – Fermi‘s golden roule
    2. Light sources and analyzers
    3. Energy scale - metals
    4. Excitation cross section
    		 9. Angle-resolved photoemission
    1. Bulk states
    2. Surface states
    3. Fermi surface mapping
    4. Quasi particles
    4. Diffraction methods
    1. Principles
    2. Low-Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED)
    3. Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED)
    4. Surface X-ray Diffraction (SXRD)
    5. Photoelectrons for structural analysis
    		 7. Electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (XPS) pdf
    		 10. Time-resolved photoemission
    1. Non-linear optics
    2. Two-photon photoemission
    3. Optical Bloch Equations

     updated 27.06.2014 MW