This text describes the physical properties of surfaces and explores modern theoretical and experimental methods for calculating the surface and adhesive characteristics of various materials and coatings. It presents relatively simple and efficient approaches and methods developed by the authors and compares the results to experimental data for metals, alloys, semiconductors, and complex compounds. The book also covers dry friction, adsorption of metal atoms, and ferromagnetic films. The principles and methods are useful in selecting optimum materials and coatings for various applications such as minimizing friction.

Mamonova, Marina V.; Prudnikov, Vladimir V.; Prudnikova, Irina A.

The demands of production, such as thin films in microelectronics, rely on consideration of factors influencing the interaction of dissimilar materials that make contact with their surfaces. Bond formation between surface layers of dissimilar condensed solids-termed adhesion-depends on the nature of the contacting bodies. Thus, it is necessary to d

Methods of experimental investigations of the surface properties of solids. Localised states and surface elementary excitations. Surface properties of solids and methods of describing them. Calculation of the surface characteristics of metals using the method of functional of electronic density. Calculation of the adhesion characteristics of the metals and melts using the density functional method. Calculating the adhesion characteristics of metals, semiconductors and complex compounds on the basis of dielectric formalism. Friction of the surfaces of solids in the absence of lubrication (dry friction). Theoretical models and methods of describing adsorption of metal atoms on metallic surfaces. Ferromagnetism of ultra-thin films of transition metals. Appendix. Determination of the minimum of the function of N variables.