This class aims at an introduction of the study of the chemistry of surfaces, with a special view on solid surfaces and on the gas/solid interface.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures and laboratory stages with the available instrumentation
Further information
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Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
Properties of solid materials and their relation with the electronic structiure of crystalline solids. Electrons in solids, band theory, density of states, work function. Structure and properties of the surface of solids Physico-chemical phenomena at the solid-gas interface. Heterogeneous catalysis. Principal techniques for the study of solid surfaces. photelectron diffraction, ion scattering, electron diffraction, scanning probe microscpoy, and more.. Properties and characterizations of thin flims. Methods of deposition and of characterization