Table of Contents:
  • Macroscopic Techniques
  • Contact Angle and Wetting Properties / Yuehua Yuan, T. Randall Lee
  • Adsorption Calorimetry on Well-Defined Surfaces / Ole Lytken, Hans-Jörg Drescher, Rickmer Kose, J. Michael Gottfried
  • Optical techniques
  • Methods of IR Spectroscopy for Surfaces and Thin Films / David Allara, Josh Stapleton
  • A Surface Scientist's View on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry / Maurizio Canepa
  • Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy / Lee J. Richter
  • X ray Techniques
  • Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction / Osami Sakata, Masashi Nakamura
  • X-Ray Reflectivity / A. Gibaud, M. S. Chebil, T. Beuvier
  • Resonant Photoelectron Diffraction / Alberto Verdini, Peter Krüger, Luca Floreano
  • Surface Structure Analysis with X-Ray Standing Waves / Jörg Zegenhagen
  • Advanced Applications of NEXAFS Spectroscopy for Functionalized Surfaces / Alexei Nefedov, Christof Wöll
  • Neutral Particle Techniques
  • Neutron Reflectivity / Frédéric Ott
  • Probing Surfaces with Thermal He Atoms: Scattering and Microscopy with a Soft Touch / Bodil Holst, Gianangelo Bracco
  • The Helium Spin-Echo Method / Andrew Jardine
  • Diffraction of H2 from Metal Surfaces / Daniel Farías, Marina Minniti, Rodolfo Miranda
  • Charged Particle Techniques
  • Low Energy Ion Scattering and Recoiling Spectroscopy in Surface Science / Vladimir A. Esaulov
  • Helium Ion Microscopy / Diederik J. Maas, Raoul van Gastel
  • High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS): A Sensitive and Versatile Surface Tool / Luca Vattuone, Letizia Savio, Mario Rocca
  • Low-Energy Electron Microscopy / Juan de la Figuera, Kevin F. McCarty
  • Scanning Probe Techniques
  • Scanning Tunneling Microscopy / Ada Della Pia, Giovanni Costantini
  • Surface Characterization Using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) in Liquid Environments / Venetia D. Lyles, Wilson K. Serem, Jing-Jiang Yu, Jayne C. Garno
  • Atomic Force Microscopy for Surface Imaging and Characterization of Supported Nanostructures
  • Franciszek Krok,
  • Bartosz Such,
  • Jacek J. Kolodziej,
  • Marek Szymonski.