From the Preface The world of spectroscopy began its development in
the second half of the XX century and has been constantly evolving
ever since. From being a set of specialized techniques available
only to a few, spectroscopy -in its many facets- has now become a
tool chest in demand by engineers and scientists of different
backgrounds. Unfortunately, the physics concepts underlying the
spectroscopic techniques remain in the field of physics and most
users -being from backgrounds other than physics- learn to use
commercial spectroscopy devices without ever learning much about
their operational principles. In the University of Texas at El
Paso, just like in many other Institutions, students from
engineering and science fields come to interact with x ray
fluorescence, x ray spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, to
name a few, without ever taking a modern physics course that would
teach them, for instance, how x rays are produced, detected or how
they interact with atomic electrons. This deficiency, which can be
easily remedied with a set of carefully designed lecture notes and
exercises, tends to propagate into the realm of applications
turning spectroscopy into an obscure subject mastered only by
experts; this needs not to be the case. It is with the goal of
providing the minimum physics background needed to understand
spectroscopy in its more general terms that we write these lecture
notes. They are aimed at an audience of science and engineering
students at the senior and graduate level, and mostly composed of
chemists, geologists, metallurgists, mechanical and electrical
engineers and, yes, physics students, all interested in studying
materials through the use of spectroscopic tools. Assuming only a
background of basic classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism,
and thermodynamics, these notes focus on explaining how radiation
(particles and electromagnetic) interact with matter, and how this
is taken advantage of to study materials through the use of
spectrometers. Because of the narrowly defined audience, the book
is equally limited in scope, most physics processes will be
presented more from a phenomenological point of view than from a
first-principles fully-theoretical approach. Students ready for
more profound treatises will be directed throughout the book to
other more complete sources. Designed as a teaching textbook, a
large number of exercises and problems have been included to
illustrate concepts and applications. Instructors are encouraged to
contact the authors to obtain a complimentary file with the
solutions, a test bank and powerpoint files of the chapters
expanded with instructive animations and progressive presentation
of the examples for in-class use. From the Foreword: One of the
most important fields of modern physics is the study of surfaces,
key to many important industrial applications as well as XXI
century developments such as plasmonics, sensors and optical
devices. Lopez Gallardo and Castro Colin present a remarkable
vision of surface science from the physicist point of view
emphasizing the quantum mechanics and complementing chemistry-based
books. This is a great tool for the education of graduate students
of materials, nanotechnology, physics and chemistry interested in
surface science. Miguel Jose Yacaman Lutcher Brown Professor
University of Texas at San Antonio
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