| Description
| This course is designated to acquaint the student with atomic-level understanding of surface structure, surface phenomena and various modern surface analysis techniques. The first part of the course focuses on the properties of the solid-gas and solid-vacuum interfaces because most of the results of modern surface-science studies on the atomic level come from the scrutiny of these interfaces. It contains the following topics: the atomic-level structure of clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces, adsorption and desorption, surface diffusion, surface segregation, the nature of the surface bonding, the adsorbate-adsorbate interaction, energy transfer during gas-surface interactions and surface reaction. The second part of the course introduces various surface analysis methods, including vacuum technology, Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS) Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM),
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