Programme

- Surface of a solid and solid/solid interface: general notions, historical development and applications

- Thermodynamics, crystallography and structure: two-dimensional lattices and superstructures; reciprocal lattice and Brillouin azone - surface tension and crystals shape; structural defects; relaxation and reconstruction; solid/solid interfaces; nucleation and thin film growth, low energy electron diffraction to investigate surface structure

- Electronic properties: surface electronic states; three-dimensional bands; band mapping with the photoemission technique; image states and core level shift; electronic states in semiconductors; the work function; surface and adsorbed vibrations; surface phonon observation methods; surface plasmons and polaritons

- Adsorption and desorption: physisorption and chemisorption; dissociative adsorption; adsorption and work function; interactions between adsorbed species; bi-dimensional phase transitions; adsorption kinetics; desorption. SUrface diffusion: Flick laws, mechanisms and anisotropy of diffusion, atomic and cluster diffusion

- Experimental techniques: general concepts of ultra high vacuum; pumping systems; vacuum components; preparation of a clean surface; vacuum deposition techniques

- Surface magnetism: electronic structure and anisotropy in ferromagnetic materials; magnetization and magnetic surface anisotropy; spin-polarized photoemission; magnetic dichroism; photoemission electron microscope for detecting magnetic domains

- Microscopy: scanning and transmission electron microscope; probe scanning microscopy: scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope

Core Documentation

- Philip Hofmann, Surface Physics

- Hans Lüth, Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films (Springer-Verlag, 2010)

- K. Oura, et al., Surface Science, An Introduction (Springer-Verlag, 2003)

- Andrew Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces (Cambridge University press, 1992)

- Gabor A. Somorjai, Introduction to surface chemistry and catalysis (Wiley, 2010)

Type of delivery of the course

The teacher illustrates the topics of the course through the screen projection of the lessons that are subsequently provided to the students.

Type of evaluation

Students are assessed through a final oral exam, in which they are required to illustrate one or more topics described during the course. An ongoing evaluation is also provided, in which students are required to describe specific course topics agreed with the students themselves.

Programme

- Surface of a solid and solid/solid interface: general notions, historical development and applications

- Thermodynamics, crystallography and structure: two-dimensional lattices and superstructures; reciprocal lattice and Brillouin azone - surface tension and crystals shape; structural defects; relaxation and reconstruction; solid/solid interfaces; nucleation and thin film growth, low energy electron diffraction to investigate surface structure

- Electronic properties: surface electronic states; three-dimensional bands; band mapping with the photoemission technique; image states and core level shift; electronic states in semiconductors; the work function; surface and adsorbed vibrations; surface phonon observation methods; surface plasmons and polaritons

- Adsorption and desorption: physisorption and chemisorption; dissociative adsorption; adsorption and work function; interactions between adsorbed species; bi-dimensional phase transitions; adsorption kinetics; desorption. SUrface diffusion: Flick laws, mechanisms and anisotropy of diffusion, atomic and cluster diffusion

- Experimental techniques: general concepts of ultra high vacuum; pumping systems; vacuum components; preparation of a clean surface; vacuum deposition techniques

- Surface magnetism: electronic structure and anisotropy in ferromagnetic materials; magnetization and magnetic surface anisotropy; spin-polarized photoemission; magnetic dichroism; photoemission electron microscope for detecting magnetic domains

- Microscopy: scanning and transmission electron microscope; probe scanning microscopy: scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope

Core Documentation

- Philip Hofmann, Surface Physics

- Hans Lüth, Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films (Springer-Verlag, 2010)

- K. Oura, et al., Surface Science, An Introduction (Springer-Verlag, 2003)

- Andrew Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces (Cambridge University press, 1992)

- Gabor A. Somorjai, Introduction to surface chemistry and catalysis (Wiley, 2010)

Type of delivery of the course

The teacher illustrates the topics of the course through the screen projection of the lessons that are subsequently provided to the students.

Type of evaluation

Students are assessed through a final oral exam, in which they are required to illustrate one or more topics described during the course. An ongoing evaluation is also provided, in which students are required to describe specific course topics agreed with the students themselves.

Programme

- Surface of a solid and solid/solid interface: general notions, historical development and applications

- Thermodynamics, crystallography and structure: two-dimensional lattices and superstructures; reciprocal lattice and Brillouin azone - surface tension and crystals shape; structural defects; relaxation and reconstruction; solid/solid interfaces; nucleation and thin film growth, low energy electron diffraction to investigate surface structure

- Electronic properties: surface electronic states; three-dimensional bands; band mapping with the photoemission technique; image states and core level shift; electronic states in semiconductors; the work function; surface and adsorbed vibrations; surface phonon observation methods; surface plasmons and polaritons

- Adsorption and desorption: physisorption and chemisorption; dissociative adsorption; adsorption and work function; interactions between adsorbed species; bi-dimensional phase transitions; adsorption kinetics; desorption. SUrface diffusion: Flick laws, mechanisms and anisotropy of diffusion, atomic and cluster diffusion

- Experimental techniques: general concepts of ultra high vacuum; pumping systems; vacuum components; preparation of a clean surface; vacuum deposition techniques

- Surface magnetism: electronic structure and anisotropy in ferromagnetic materials; magnetization and magnetic surface anisotropy; spin-polarized photoemission; magnetic dichroism; photoemission electron microscope for detecting magnetic domains

- Microscopy: scanning and transmission electron microscope; probe scanning microscopy: scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope

Core Documentation

- Philip Hofmann, Surface Physics

- Hans Lüth, Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films (Springer-Verlag, 2010)

- K. Oura, et al., Surface Science, An Introduction (Springer-Verlag, 2003)

- Andrew Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces (Cambridge University press, 1992)

- Gabor A. Somorjai, Introduction to surface chemistry and catalysis (Wiley, 2010)

Type of delivery of the course

The teacher illustrates the topics of the course through the screen projection of the lessons that are subsequently provided to the students.

Type of evaluation

Students are assessed through a final oral exam, in which they are required to illustrate one or more topics described during the course. An ongoing evaluation is also provided, in which students are required to describe specific course topics agreed with the students themselves.

Programme

- Surface of a solid and solid/solid interface: general notions, historical development and applications

- Thermodynamics, crystallography and structure: two-dimensional lattices and superstructures; reciprocal lattice and Brillouin azone - surface tension and crystals shape; structural defects; relaxation and reconstruction; solid/solid interfaces; nucleation and thin film growth, low energy electron diffraction to investigate surface structure

- Electronic properties: surface electronic states; three-dimensional bands; band mapping with the photoemission technique; image states and core level shift; electronic states in semiconductors; the work function; surface and adsorbed vibrations; surface phonon observation methods; surface plasmons and polaritons

- Adsorption and desorption: physisorption and chemisorption; dissociative adsorption; adsorption and work function; interactions between adsorbed species; bi-dimensional phase transitions; adsorption kinetics; desorption. SUrface diffusion: Flick laws, mechanisms and anisotropy of diffusion, atomic and cluster diffusion

- Experimental techniques: general concepts of ultra high vacuum; pumping systems; vacuum components; preparation of a clean surface; vacuum deposition techniques

- Surface magnetism: electronic structure and anisotropy in ferromagnetic materials; magnetization and magnetic surface anisotropy; spin-polarized photoemission; magnetic dichroism; photoemission electron microscope for detecting magnetic domains

- Microscopy: scanning and transmission electron microscope; probe scanning microscopy: scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope

Core Documentation

- Philip Hofmann, Surface Physics

- Hans Lüth, Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films (Springer-Verlag, 2010)

- K. Oura, et al., Surface Science, An Introduction (Springer-Verlag, 2003)

- Andrew Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces (Cambridge University press, 1992)

- Gabor A. Somorjai, Introduction to surface chemistry and catalysis (Wiley, 2010)

Type of delivery of the course

The teacher illustrates the topics of the course through the screen projection of the lessons that are subsequently provided to the students.

Type of evaluation

Students are assessed through a final oral exam, in which they are required to illustrate one or more topics described during the course. An ongoing evaluation is also provided, in which students are required to describe specific course topics agreed with the students themselves.

Programme

- Surface of a solid and solid/solid interface: general notions, historical development and applications

- Thermodynamics, crystallography and structure: two-dimensional lattices and superstructures; reciprocal lattice and Brillouin azone - surface tension and crystals shape; structural defects; relaxation and reconstruction; solid/solid interfaces; nucleation and thin film growth, low energy electron diffraction to investigate surface structure

- Electronic properties: surface electronic states; three-dimensional bands; band mapping with the photoemission technique; image states and core level shift; electronic states in semiconductors; the work function; surface and adsorbed vibrations; surface phonon observation methods; surface plasmons and polaritons

- Adsorption and desorption: physisorption and chemisorption; dissociative adsorption; adsorption and work function; interactions between adsorbed species; bi-dimensional phase transitions; adsorption kinetics; desorption. SUrface diffusion: Flick laws, mechanisms and anisotropy of diffusion, atomic and cluster diffusion

- Experimental techniques: general concepts of ultra high vacuum; pumping systems; vacuum components; preparation of a clean surface; vacuum deposition techniques

- Surface magnetism: electronic structure and anisotropy in ferromagnetic materials; magnetization and magnetic surface anisotropy; spin-polarized photoemission; magnetic dichroism; photoemission electron microscope for detecting magnetic domains

- Microscopy: scanning and transmission electron microscope; probe scanning microscopy: scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope

Core Documentation

- Philip Hofmann, Surface Physics

- Hans Lüth, Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films (Springer-Verlag, 2010)

- K. Oura, et al., Surface Science, An Introduction (Springer-Verlag, 2003)

- Andrew Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces (Cambridge University press, 1992)

- Gabor A. Somorjai, Introduction to surface chemistry and catalysis (Wiley, 2010)

Type of delivery of the course

The teacher illustrates the topics of the course through the screen projection of the lessons that are subsequently provided to the students.

Type of evaluation

Students are assessed through a final oral exam, in which they are required to illustrate one or more topics described during the course. An ongoing evaluation is also provided, in which students are required to describe specific course topics agreed with the students themselves.

Programme

- Surface of a solid and solid/solid interface: general notions, historical development and applications

- Thermodynamics, crystallography and structure: two-dimensional lattices and superstructures; reciprocal lattice and Brillouin azone - surface tension and crystals shape; structural defects; relaxation and reconstruction; solid/solid interfaces; nucleation and thin film growth, low energy electron diffraction to investigate surface structure

- Electronic properties: surface electronic states; three-dimensional bands; band mapping with the photoemission technique; image states and core level shift; electronic states in semiconductors; the work function; surface and adsorbed vibrations; surface phonon observation methods; surface plasmons and polaritons

- Adsorption and desorption: physisorption and chemisorption; dissociative adsorption; adsorption and work function; interactions between adsorbed species; bi-dimensional phase transitions; adsorption kinetics; desorption. SUrface diffusion: Flick laws, mechanisms and anisotropy of diffusion, atomic and cluster diffusion

- Experimental techniques: general concepts of ultra high vacuum; pumping systems; vacuum components; preparation of a clean surface; vacuum deposition techniques

- Surface magnetism: electronic structure and anisotropy in ferromagnetic materials; magnetization and magnetic surface anisotropy; spin-polarized photoemission; magnetic dichroism; photoemission electron microscope for detecting magnetic domains

- Microscopy: scanning and transmission electron microscope; probe scanning microscopy: scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope

Core Documentation

- Philip Hofmann, Surface Physics

- Hans Lüth, Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films (Springer-Verlag, 2010)

- K. Oura, et al., Surface Science, An Introduction (Springer-Verlag, 2003)

- Andrew Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces (Cambridge University press, 1992)

- Gabor A. Somorjai, Introduction to surface chemistry and catalysis (Wiley, 2010)

Type of delivery of the course

The teacher illustrates the topics of the course through the screen projection of the lessons that are subsequently provided to the students.

Type of evaluation

Students are assessed through a final oral exam, in which they are required to illustrate one or more topics described during the course. An ongoing evaluation is also provided, in which students are required to describe specific course topics agreed with the students themselves.