Electronic Phenomena in Adsorption and Catalysis on Semiconductors and Dielectrics

1. Introduction.- 2. The Phenomenological Description of Electronic Processes on Semiconductor Surfaces.- 2.1 Surface-Electron States. Basic Concepts.- 2.2 The Space-Charge Region.- 2.3 Field Effect as a Method of Investigating the Energy Spectrum of the Surface.- 2.4 Alternative Electrophysical Techniques for the Study of Surface States.- 3. The Energy Spectrum of Semiconductor Surfaces.- 3.1 The Fast States and Recombination Electron States on Real Semiconductor Surfaces.- 3.2 The Energy Spectrum of the Surface from the Standpoint of the Theory of Disordered Systems.- 3.3 Slow Electron States on Real Semiconductor Surfaces.- 3.4 The Energy Spectrum of an Atomically Clean Surface.- 4. Electron Processes in Semiconductor Adsorbents and Catalysts.- 4.1 Electron Processes in Wide-Band Semiconductors (Dielectrics).- 4.2 Disordered Wide-Band Semiconductors.- 4.3 The Energy Spectrum of Wide-Band Semiconductor Surfaces.- 4.4 Polycrystalline Semiconductors.- 5. The Electron Theory of Chemisorption and Catalysis on Ideal Semiconductor Surfaces.- 5.1 Electronic and Adsorptive Equilibrium.- 5.2 The Kinetics of Adsorption and Catalysis.- 5.3 Chemisorption: Electron Theory and Experiment.- 6. The Effects of Adsorption on the Electrophysical Parameters of Real Semiconductor Surfaces.- 6.1 Physical Adsorption.- 6.2 Adsorption of Donor Molecules.- 6.3 Adsorption of Acceptor Molecules.- 6.4 Slow Adsorptive States.- 6.5 The Kinetics of Adsorption and Charge Accumulation on Real Surfaces.- 6.6 The Donor-Acceptor Mechanism of Adsorption and Charging.- 6.7 A Model of a Disordered Real Surface.- 7. Catalysis and Electronic Phenomena on Real Semiconductor Surfaces.- 7.1 Ion Radicals on the Surface.- 7.2 Catalytic Activity and Surface Electronics.- 8. The Phonon and Shock Mechanisms of Charge-Carrier Capture in Adsorption and Catalysis.- 8.1 Phonon Excitations in Photoadsorption and Photocatalysis.- 8.2 The Participation of Vibrational Modes of Adsorbed Molecules in the Capture and Recombination of Free Charge Carriers.- 8.3 Dissipation of the Energy of Adsorptive Interactions.- 8.4 On the Possible Role of Auger Effects in Adsorption and Catalysis.- 9. Proton Processes on the Surfaces of Semiconductors and Insulators.- 9.1 Proton Conduction of Adsorbed Water.- 9.2 Photostimulated Dissociation of Adsorbed Molecules.- 9.3 The Effects of Protonic Processes on the Parameters of Surface States.- References.