　　本书是晶体表面物理学概念和现象的入门书籍。内容涵盖洁净表面和吸附物覆盖表面、原子结构、振动性质、电子结构的热动力学和统计性质以及物理吸附和化学吸附理论。这是第二版，对原有内容的做了较大改动，增加了不少习题，可以引起读者对本学科更大兴趣，更好地投入到这门学问。目次：导论；热动力学和表面的统计性质；表面的原子结构；表面的振动；表面的电子结构；吸附现象；附录。
　　读者对象：物理专业研究生，教师和相关专业的工作人员。

1. introduction
2. thermodynamical and statistical properties of cleansurfaces
　2.1 thermodynamics of a surface at equilibrium
　2.2 equilibrium shape of a crystal
　2.3 facetting
　2.4 the roughening transition
　problems
3. atomic structure of surfaces
　3.1 surface crystallography
　3.2 experimental techniques
　problems
4. vibrations at surfaces
　4.1 elastic forces in crystals
　4.2 bulk modes
　4.3 surface modes
　4.4 spectral densities of modes
　4.5 vibrational thermodynamicai functions
　4.6 mean square displacements
　problems
5. electronic structure of surfaces
　5.1 jeilium model
　5.2 nearly free electron model-surface states
　5.3 tight-binding approximation
　5.4 application of the tight-binding approximation to
　5.5 application of the tight-binding approximation tosemiconductor surfaces
　5.6 other methods
　5.7 surface plasmons in metals
　5.8 image potential
　5.9 some further remarks on exchange and correlationenergies
　5.10 experimental techniques for investigating the electronicstructure
　5.10.2 photoemission of valence electronic states
　5.10.3 inverse photoemission
　5.10.4 spatially-resolved tunneling spectroscopy
　5.10.5 measurement of surface plasmons
　5.10.6 measurement of the work function
　5.10.7 measurement of surface energies
　problems
6. adsorption phenomena
　6.1 thermodynamical approach
　6.2 statistical methods
　6.3 physisorption
　6.4 chemisorption
　6.5 interactions between adsorbates
　6.6 electronic structure of ordered overlayers an example: o onni(100)
　problems
　appendices
　a. theory of scattering by a spherical potential: briefsummary
　b.the continued fraction technique
　c.electromagic waves in matter
　d.calculation of the variation of the total energy due to aperturbing external charge distribution within the densityfunctional formalism
　e.useful relations for the study of many body interactions
　f.interaction of an electron with an electromagic
　g.calculation of the current in a scanning tunnelingmicroscope
　h.calculation of the atomic dynamic polarizability
　i.variation of the density of states due to a perturbingpotential
　j.energy of chemisorption in the anderson-grimley-newns modelusing contour integrals
　k.elastic constants and elastic waves in cubic crystals
　references
subject index