Low-Energy Electron Diffraction: Experiment, Theory and Surface Structure Determination

Surface crystallography plays the same fundamental role in surface science which bulk crystallography has played so successfully in solid—state physics and chemistry. The atomic—scale structure is one of the most important aspects in the understanding of the behavior of surfaces in such widely diverse fields as heterogeneous catalysis, microelectronics, adhesion, lubrication, cor­ rosion, coatings, and solid—solid and solid—liquid interfaces. Low—Energy Electron Diffraction or LEED has beco...