This comprehensive and innovative text provides an understanding of the
geometric and electronic structure of surfaces. The book emphasizes
fundamental aspects, such as the principles of surface crystallography
and thermodynamics, the forces driving the rearrangement of the atoms,
and the relationship between bonding and electronic structure. It
especially illuminates the relationship between surface orientation,
chemistry, energetics, and the resulting properties. Principles of
Surface Physics develops general physical arguments and methods that
enable readers to analyse novel surfaces and interfaces of new
materials. This makes the book an indispensable reference to all those
studying growth, surface-molecule interactions, self-assembled
structures, and materials engineering.