Critical Phenomena at Surfaces and Interfaces: Evanescent X-Ray and Neutron Scattering

by Helmut Dosch

Overview

This book deals with the application of grazing angle x-ray and neutron scattering to the study of surface-induced critical phenomena. With the advent of even more advanced synchrotron radiation sources and new sophisticated instrumentation this novel technique is expected to experience a boom. The comprehensive and detailed presentation of theoretical and experimental aspects of the scattering of evanascent x-ray and neutron waves inside a solid makes this book particularly useful for tutorial courses. Particular emphasis is put on the use of this technique to extract microscopic information (correlation functions) from the real structure of a surface, from buried and magnetic interfaces and from surface roughness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662149751
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/03/2013
Series:	Springer Tracts in Modern Physics , #126
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Evanescent X-ray scattering.- Evanescent neutron scattering.- Semi-infinite critical systems.- Surface effects at first order phase transitions.