Phase Transitions in Surface Films 2

by H. Taub (Editor), G. Torzo (Editor), H.J. Lauter (Editor), S.C. Fain Jr. (Editor)

Overview

The Advanced Study Institute (AS I) entitled "Phase Transitions in Surface Films" was held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily from June 19 to June 29, 1990. It reviewed the present understanding (experimental and theoretical) of phase transitions of surfaces, interfaces, and thin ftlms as well as the related structural and dynamical properties of these systems. From its inception, this ASI was envisioned as a sequel to one of the same title organized eleven years earlier by J. G. Dash and J. Ruvalds which was also held at the Ettore Majorana Centre. The previous ASI reflected the progress which had been made in understanding quasi two-dimensional (2D) states of matter, particularly adsorbed monolayers, and the phase transitions which occur in them. At that time, the field was barely ten years old. The modern field to which we are referring here can be traced to the landmark experiments of A. Thorny and X. Duval. Beginning in 1967, they published a series of papers presenting evidence from vapor pressure measurements of 2D phases of krypton and other gases adsorbed on polycrystalline (exfoliated) graphite. Their work led to a large number of thermodynamic and scattering experiments on physisorbed ftlms. This in turn motivated a great deal of theoretical interest in 2D systems and their phase transitions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468459722
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	03/18/2012
Series:	NATO Science Series B: , #267
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Monolayers.- Phase Transitions of Monolayer Films Adsorbed on Graphite.- Computer Simulations of Two-Dimensional Systems.- Modulated Structures of Adsorbed Rare Gas Monolayers.- Signatures and Consequences of the Substrate Corrugation.- Epitaxial Rotation and Rotational Phase Transitions.- Structures and Phase Transitions in Alkali Metal Overlayers on Transition Metal Surfaces.- Original Properties of Thin Adsorbed Films on an Ionic Surface of Square Symmetry and High Surface Homogeneity: MgO(100).- Neutron Scattering Studies of Quantum Films.- A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Effect of Steric Properties on the Melting of Quasi Two-Dimensional Systems.- Probing Film Phase Transitions Through Measurements of Sliding Friction.- Phase Transitions in Lipid Monolayers on Water: New Light on an Old Problem.- Surface Reconstruction, Roughening, and Melting.- Phenomenology of Surface Reconstruction.- The Roughening Transition on Surfaces.- Interplay Between Surface Roughening, Preroughening, and Reconstruction.- Thermal Dynamics of Nonvicinal Metal Surfaces.- Surface-induced Melting of Solids.- Surface Melting and Diffusion.- On Surface Melting.- Frost Heave and the Surface Melting of Ice.- Wetting Phenomena, Multilayer Structures, and Film Growth.- Multilayer Physisorbed Films on Graphite.- Fluid Interfaces: Wetting, Critical Adsorption, van der Waals Tails, and the Concept of the Effective Interface Potential.- Adsorption Studies with a Graphite Fiber Microbalance.- The Methane/Graphite Phase Diagram.- Kinetics of Overlayer Growth.- Summary.- Conference Summary Where From? Where To?.- Participants.