Surface Phonons

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   • W. Kress, F. W. de Wette

   Pages 1-3

3. Surface Acoustic Waves

   • A. A. Maradudin, G. I. Stegeman

   Pages 5-35

4. The Green’s Function Method in the Surface Lattice Dynamics of Ionic Crystals

   • G. Benedek, L. Miglio

   Pages 37-66

5. Study of Surface Phonons by the Slab Method

   • F. W. de Wette

   Pages 67-109

6. Experimental Determination of Surface Phonons by Helium Atom and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

   • J. P. Toennies

   Pages 111-166

7. Theory of Helium Scattering from Surface Phonons

   • V. Celli

   Pages 167-191

8. The Study of Surface Phonons by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy: Theoretical and Experimental Considerations

   • D. L. Mills, S. Y. Tong, J. E. Black

   Pages 193-207

9. Vibrational Properties of Clean Surfaces: Survey of Recent Theoretical and Experimental Results

   • W. Kress

   Pages 209-292

10. Back Matter

    Pages 293-301

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In recent years substantial progress has been made in the detection of surface phonons owing to considerable improvements in inelastic rare gas scattering tech­ niques and electron energy loss spectroscopy. With these methods it has become possible to measure surface vibrations in a wide energy range for all wave vectors in the two-dimensional Brillouin zone and thus to deduce the complete surface phonon dispersion curves. Inelastic atomic beam scattering and electron energy loss spectroscopy have started to play a role in the study of surface phonons similar to the one played by inelastic neutron scattering in the investigation of bulk phonons in the last thirty years. Detailed comparison between experimen­ tal results and theoretical studies of inelastic surface scattering and of surface phonons has now become feasible. It is therefore possible to test and to improve the details of interaction models which have been worked out theoretically in the last few decades. At this point we felt that a concise, coherent and self-contained guide to the rapidly growing field of surface phonons was needed.

• EELS
• Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)
• He-scattering
• Surface dynamics
• Surface phonons
• Vibration
• electron energy loss spectroscopy
• inelastic atom scattering
• lattice dynamics
• scattering
• semiconductor
• spectroscopy
• surface
• wave

• Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Winfried Kress

• Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

  Frederik W. Wette

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