The purpose of this article is to describe the basic physical processes involved in the nucleation and growth of thin films of materials on solid surfaces. In this introduction the three modes of crystal growth which are thought to occur on surfaces in the absence of interdiffusion are described, and the relationships between the thermodynamics of adsorption and the kinetics of crystal growth are explored in general terms. This is followed by a brief review of atomistic nucleation theory, explaining the relations of such theories to experimental observables. In the next three sections, recent experimental examples of these three growth modes are given, which are interpreted where possible in terms of nucleation and growth theory. The last section discusses observations on the shapes of growing crystallites and the relation of such observations to nucleation and surface diffusion processes.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/47/4/002/pdf

Nucleation and growth of thin films

The Interaction of Water with Solid Surfaces: Fundamental Aspects Revisited

http://nathan.instras.com/documentDB/paper-44.pdf

Surface photovoltage phenomena: theory, experiment, and applications

Collective electronic excitations at metal surfaces are well known to play a key role in a wide spectrum of science, ranging from physics and materials science to biology. Here we focus on a theoretical description of the many-body dynamical electronic response of solids, which underlines the existence of various collective electronic excitations at metal surfaces, such as the conventional surface plasmon, multipole plasmons and the recently predicted acoustic surface plasmon. We also review existing calculations, experimental measurements and applications.

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Theory of surface plasmons and surface-plasmon polaritons

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Metal Oxide Surfaces and Their Interactions with Aqueous Solutions and Microbial Organisms.

Adsorption of atomic hydrogen on clean cleaved silicon (111)

LEED studies of surface imperfections

Strained-layer growth and islanding of germanium on Si(111)-(7 × 7) studied with STM

Epitaxy of Si(111) as studied with a new high resolving LEED system

We have studied, for the first time, the energy and the linewidth dispersion of a plasmon in a dense two-dimensional electron system in a metallic surface-state band on a silicon surface. As expected from the considerably high effective density and long Fermi wavelength of the system, the plasmon energy dispersion exhibited an excellent agreement with the nearly free-electron theory. However, in a small wave number region below the Landau edge, we have observed an anomalous linewidth dispersion which nearly free-electron theories do not predict.

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Martin Henzler

Papers

Adsorption of atomic hydrogen on clean cleaved silicon (111)

LEED studies of surface imperfections

Strained-layer growth and islanding of germanium on Si(111)-(7 × 7) studied with STM

Epitaxy of Si(111) as studied with a new high resolving LEED system

Dispersion and damping of a two-dimensional plasmon in a metallic surface-state band.