Review of Surface Relaxation and Reconstruction Phenomena

• Authors: P. Zieliński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The basic definitions concerning structure of surface are given. The principal experimental methods of the observation of surfaces are reviewed. A possibly heuristic explanation is given of principal theoretical concepts underlying the present understanding of the surface phenomena. The best known and/or understood examples of the surface relaxation, surface reconstruction and roughening are reviewed.

Keywords

EN

68.35.-p; 68.35.Bs; 68.35.Md; 68.35.Rh

Discipline

• 68.35.Md: Surface thermodynamics, surface energies(see also 05.70.Np Interface and surface thermodynamics in statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems; 65.40.gp Surface energy in thermal properties of condensed matter)
• 68.35.Rh: Phase transitions and critical phenomena
• 68.35.-p: Solid surfaces and solid-solid interfaces: structure and energetics

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1996
• Volume: 89
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 251-263

Dates

published

1996-02

Contributors

author

P. Zieliński

• Institute of Nuclear Physics, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.89.251