Surface Science and Low Dimensional Systems

Part I. Crystal structure of clean surfaces

symmetry breaking: from 2D to 3D, geometric and electronic structure,

relaxation and reconstruction; surface energy, adsorption and chemical

reactions.

Part II. Wetting and capillarity effects

Surface Energy and Contact Angles; Wetting, Long Range Forces and

Disjoining Pressure; Hydrodynamics of Interfaces and Dewetting.

Part III. Low dimensional systems

Dimensional quantization; Charge carriers in low-dimensional systems;

Quantum Dots, Wires and Wells; 2D materials and Graphene.

1. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Francoise Brochard-Wyart, David Quere, Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena, Springer-Verlag New York (2004); ISBN 978-0-387-00592-8.
2. Hans-Jürgen Butt, Michael Kappl, Surface and Interfacial Forces, Wiley-VCH (2010), ISBN: 978-3-527-40849-8.
3. Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces, 2nd. edition, Cambridge Univ. Press (Cambridge, 1990).
4. H. Lüth, Surfaces and Interfaces of Solids, Springer (Berlin, 1993).
5. J. Israelachvili, Intermolecular & Surface Forces (second edition), Academic Press (1991); ISBN 0 12-375181-0.