Surfaces and interfaces play an increasingly important role in today's solid state devices. In this book the reader is introduced, in a didactic manner, to the

Graduate-level textbook for physicists, chemists and materials scientists.

An introduction to the study of basic electronic and magnetic properties of complex materials such as alloys, their surfaces, interfaces, and extended defects.

An important graduate textbook in condensed matter physics by highly regarded physicist.

Molecular surface science has made enormous progress in the past 30 years. The development can be characterized by a revolution in fundamental knowledge obtaine