Cottam, Michael G.

Introduction to surface and superlattice excitations / Michael G. Cottam, David R. Tilley - 2nd ed. - Bristol : Intitue of Physics Publishing, 2005 - xiii, 516 p. - Graduate Students Serries in Physics .

Includes appendices, subject index,materials index, abbreviations and acronyms

BASIC CONCEPTS AND BULK PROPERTIES Introduction Bulk models and properties SINGLE-SURFACE, FILM AND RELATED EXCITATIONS Surface phonons and elastic modes Surface magnons Surface magnetostatic and Dipole-exchange modes Surface Polaritons Other Surface Excitations EXCITATIONS IN MULTILAYER STRUCTURES Nonmagnetic layered structures and superlattices Magnetic layered structures and superlattices NONLINEAR EFFECTS Nonlinear optics and nonlinear magnetics Nonmagnetic surfaces and superlattices Magnetic surfaces and superlattices APPENDIX: Green Functions and Linear-Response Theory

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