Surface Properties of Layered Structures

STM and AFM Studies of Layered Materials: General.- 1. Introduction.- 2. STM and AFM Studies of the surface properties of graphite.- 3. STM and AFM studies of graphite intercalation compounds.- 4. STM and AFM studies of compound layered materials.- 5. Concluding comments.- STM and AFM of Layered Transition Metal Compounds.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Charge-density wave formation.- 3. Experimental techniques.- 4. STM and AFM of IT phase layer structure crystals.- 5. CDW defects.- 6. Mechanisms for STM amplitude enhancement.- 7. STM and AFM of 2H phase layer structure crystals.- 8. 4Hb phase transition metal dichalcogenides.- 9. Spectroscopy of layer structure dichalcogenides.- 10. Conclusions.- Electronic Structure and Properties of Layered Structures.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Computational approach.- 3. Free-electron interlayer states and related surface states in layered materials.- 4. Compounds with the AlB2 structure.- 5. Semiconductor interfaces and heterojunctions.- Helium Atom Scattering Studies of the Surface Phonons of Layered Materials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Helium atom scattering experimental techniques.- 3. Graphite.- 4. 2H-TaSe2.- 5. 1 T-TaS2.- 6. GaSe.- 7. Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8 high temperature superconductor.- 8. Summary and Conclusions.- Rare Gases on Graphite.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Interaction potentials and low coverage adsorption.- 3. The phases of rare gases on graphite.- 4. Experimental Review.- Monolayer adsorption of Ar, Kr, Xe and CH4 on Layered Halides.- 1. Historical.- 2. Thermodynamic analysis of stepwise adsorption isotherms.- 3. Layered dihalides as substrates for adsorption.- 4. Corrugation-independent adsorption.- 5. Sitewise adsorption.- 6. Monolayer structure and corrugation: an overview.- 7. Conclusion.- Appendix: Semi-empirical estimation of the corrugation amplitude.