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Introduction |
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I.1 Heterogeneous catalysis |
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I.3 Where are surfaces, interfaces, and nanoscale objects important? |
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I.3.1 Making bread from air: ammonia synthesis |
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I.3.2 Gas-to-liquids: fischer-tropsch synthesis, C1 chemistry and artificial photosynthesis |
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I.3.3 Clean propulsion: three-way catalyst, lithium ion batteries, fuel cells |
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I.3.4 Water splitting: oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER) |
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I.4 Semiconductor processing and nanotechnology |
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I.5 Other areas of relevance |
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I.6 Structure of the book |
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1 Surface and Adsorbate Structure |
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1.1 Clean surface structure |
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1.1.1 Ideal flat surfaces |
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1.1.2 High-index and vicinal planes |
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1.1.4 Bimetallic surfaces |
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1.1.5 Oxide and compound semiconductor surfaces |
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1.1.6 The Carbon family: Diamond, Graphite, Graphene, Fullerenes, and Carbon Nanotubes |
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1.1.7 Two-dimensional solids (2D solids) |
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1.1.8 Advanced topic: stacked two-dimensional materials and Moire superlattices |
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1.2 Reconstruction and adsorbate structure |
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1.2.1 Implications of surface heterogeneity for adsorbates |
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1.2.2 Clean surface reconstructions |
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1.2.3 Adsorbate-induced reconstructions |
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1.3 Band structure of solids |
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1.3.1 Bulk electronic states |
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1.3.2 Metals, semiconductors, and insulators |
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1.3.3 Energy levels at metal interfaces |
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1.3.4 Energy levels at metal-semiconductor interfaces |
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1.3.5 Surface electronic states |
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1.3.6 Size effects in nanoscale systems |
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1.4 The vibrations of solids |
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1.5 Summary of important concepts |
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1.6 Frontiers and challenges |
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2 Experimental Probes and Techniques |
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2.2 Light and electron sources |
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2.2.4 Free electron laser (FEL) |
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2.3.1 Knudsen molecular beams |
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2.3.3 Comparison of Knudsen and supersonic beams |
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2.4 Scanning probe techniques |
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2.4.1 Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) |
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2.4.2 Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy (STS) |
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2.4.3 Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) |
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2.4.4 Atomic force microscopy (AFM) |
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2.4.5 Near-field optical microscopy (NSOM) |
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2.5 Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) |
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2.6 Electron Spectroscopy |
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2.6.1 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) |
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2.6.2 Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) |
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2.6.3 Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) |
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2.6.4 Photoelectron microscopy |
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2.7 Vibrational spectroscopy |
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2.7.2 Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) |
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2.8 Second harmonic and sum frequency generation |
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2.9 Summary of important concepts |
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2.10 Frontiers and challenges |
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3 Chemisorption, Physisorption, and Dynamics |
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3.1 Types of interactions |
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3.2 Binding sites and diffusion |
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3.4 Non-dissociative chemisorption |
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3.4.1 Theoretical treatment of chemisorption |
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3.4.2 The Blyholder model of CO chemisorption on a metal |
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3.4.3 Molecular oxygen chemisorption |
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3.4.4 The binding of ethene |
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3.5 Dissociative chemisorption: H2 on a simple metal |
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3.6 What determines the reactivity of metals? |
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3.7 Atoms and molecules incident on a surface |
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3.7.1 Scattering channels |
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3.7.2 Non-activated adsorption |
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3.7.4 Activated adsorption |
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3.7.5 Direct versus precursor-mediated adsorption |
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3.8 Microscopic reversibility in ad/desorption phenomena |
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3.9 The influence of individual degrees of freedom on adsorption and desorption |
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3.9.2 PES topography and the relative efficacy of energetic components |
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3.10 Translations, corrugation, surface-atom motions |
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3.10.1 Effects on adsorption |
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3.10.2 Connecting adsorption and desorption with microscopic reversibility |
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3.10.3 Normal energy scaling |
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3.11 Rotations and adsorption |
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3.11.1 Non-activated adsorption |
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3.11.2 Activated adsorption |
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3.12 Vibrations and adsorption |
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3.13 Competitive adsorption and collision-induced processes |
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3.13.1 High energy collisions |
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3.14 Classification of reaction mechanisms |
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3.14.1 Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism |
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3.14.2 Eley-Rideal mechanism |
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3.14.3 Hot atom mechanism |
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3.15 Measurement of sticking coefficients |
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3.16 Summary of important concepts |
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3.17 Frontiers and challenges |
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4 Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Adsorption and Desorption |
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4.1 Thermodynamics of ad/desorption |
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4.1.1 Single-particle versus distribution-averaged quantities |
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4.1.2 Binding energies and activation barriers |
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4.1.3 Thermodynamic quantities |
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4.1.5 Absorption enthalpy |
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4.2 Adsorption isotherms from thermodynamics |
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4.2.1 Adsorbate chemical potential and activity |
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4.4.1 First-order desorption |
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4.4.2 Transition state theory treatment of first-order desorption |
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4.4.3 Thermodynamic treatment of first-order desorption |
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4.4.5 Configurational entropy |
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4.4.6 Non-first-order desorption |
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4.5 Kinetics of adsorption |
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4.5.1 CTST approach to adsorption kinetics |
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4.5.2 Langmuirian adsorption: non-dissociative adsorption |
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4.5.3 Langmuirian adsorption: dissociative adsorption |
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4.5.4 Dissociative Langmuirian adsorption with lateral interactions |
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4.5.5 Precursor-mediated adsorption |
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4.6 Adsorption isotherms from kinetics |
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4.6.2 Classification of adsorption isotherms |
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4.6.3 Thermodynamic measurements via isotherms |
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4.7 Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) |
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4.7.2 Qualitative analysis of TPD spectra |
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4.7.3 Quantitative analysis of TPD Spectra |
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4.8 Summary of important concepts |
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4.9 Frontiers and challenges |
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5 Liquid Interfaces |
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5.1 Structure of the liquid/solid interface |
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5.1.1 The Structure of the water/solid interface |
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5.2 Surface energy and surface tension |
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5.2.3 Surface melting and surface crystallization |
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5.3.1 Liquid-on-solid films |
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5.5 Langmuir-Blodgett films |
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5.5.1 Capillary condensation and meniscus formation |
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5.5.2 Vertical deposition |
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5.5.3 Horizontal lifting (Schaefer's Method) |
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5.6 Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) |
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5.6.1 Thermodynamics of self-assembly |
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5.6.2 Amphiphiles and bonding interactions |
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5.6.3 Mechanism of SAM formation |
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5.7 Thermodynamics of liquid interfaces |
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5.7.3 Interfacial enthalpy and internal, Helmholtz and Gibbs surface energies |
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5.7.4 Gibbs adsorption isotherm |
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5.8 Electrified and charged interfaces |
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5.8.1 Surface charge and potential |
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5.8.2 Relating work functions to the electrochemical series |
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5.9 Summary of important concepts |
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5.10 Frontiers and challenges |
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6 Heterogeneous Catalysis |
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6.1 The prominence of heterogeneous reactions |
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6.2 How to choose a catalyst |
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6.3 Sabatier analysis and optimal catalyst selection |
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6.4 Measurement of surface kinetics and reaction mechanisms |
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6.6 From microscopic kinetics to catalysis |
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6.6.2 Kinetic analysis using De Donder relations |
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6.6.3 Counting sites in surface kinetics |
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6.6.4 Definition of the rate determining step (RDS) |
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6.6.5 Microkinetic analysis of ammonia synthesis |
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6.7 Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and related chemistry |
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6.7.2 Water gas shift reaction |
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6.7.4 Fischer-Tropsch synthesis |
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6.8 The three-way automotive catalyst |
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6.11 Bimetallic and bifunctional catalysts |
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6.12 Rate oscillations and spatiotemporal pattern formation |
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6.12.1 Advanced topic: cluster assembled catalysts |
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6.13.1 Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and H2 oxidation reaction (HOR) |
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6.13.2 Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and O2 reduction reaction (ORR) |
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6.13.3 Advanced topic: water splitting in photosystem II |
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6.14 Summary of important concepts |
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6.15 Frontiers and challenges |
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7 Growth and Epitaxy |
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7.3 Surface energy, surface tension and strain energy |
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7.4.1 Solid-on-solid growth |
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7.4.2 Strain in solid-on-solid growth |
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7.4.4 Equilibrium overlayer structure and growth mode |
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7.5.1 Cloud formation: heterogeneous versus homogeneous nucleation |
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7.6 Growth away from equilibrium |
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7.6.1 Thermodynamics versus dynamics |
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7.6.2 Non-equilibrium growth modes |
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7.7 Techniques for growing layers |
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7.7.1 Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) |
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7.7.2 Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) |
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7.7.3 Atomic layer deposition (ALD) |
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7.7.4 Ablation techniques |
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7.7.5 Growth on liquid metals |
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7.7.6 van der Waals epitaxy |
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7.8 Catalytic growth of nanotubes and nanowires |
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7.9.1 Classification of etching |
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7.9.3 Porous solid formation |
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7.9.4 Silicon etching in aqueous fluoride solutions |
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7.9.5 Selective area growth and etching |
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7.9.6 Atomic layer etching (ALE) |
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7.9.7 Coal gasification and graphite etching |
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7.10 Summary of important concepts |
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7.11 Frontiers and challenges |
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8 Laser and Non-thermal Chemistry: Photon and Electron Stimulated Chemistry and Atom Manipulation |
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8.1 Photon excitation of surfaces |
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8.1.1 Light absorption by condensed matter |
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8.1.3 Advanced topic: temporal evolution of electronic excitations |
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8.1.4 Summary of laser excitations |
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8.2 Mechanisms of electron and photon stimulated processes |
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8.2.1 Direct versus substrate mediated processes |
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8.2.2 Gas phase photochemistry |
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8.2.3 Gas phase electron stimulated chemistry |
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8.2.4 MGR and Antoniewicz models of DIET |
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8.2.5 Desorption induced by ultrafast excitation |
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8.3 Photon and electron induced chemistry at surfaces |
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8.3.1 Thermal desorption, reaction, and diffusion |
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437 | (2) |
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8.3.2 Stimulated desorption/reaction |
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8.4 Charge transfer and electrochemistry |
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8.4.1 Homogeneous electron transfer |
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8.4.2 Corrections to and improvements on Marcus theory |
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8.4.3 Heterogeneous electron transfer |
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8.4.4 Current flow at a metal electrode |
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8.4.5 Advanced topic: semiconductor photoelectrodes and the Gratzel photovoltaic cell |
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8.5 Tip- induced process: mechanisms of atom manipulation |
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8.5.1 Electric field effects |
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8.5.3 Vibrational ladder climbing |
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8.5.6 Atom manipulation by covalent forces |
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8.6 Summary of important concepts |
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8.7 Frontiers and challenges |
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Appendix A Abbreviations and Prefixes |
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Appendix B Symbols |
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Appendix C Useful Mathematical Expressions |
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Index |
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