This book deals with the application of grazing angle x-ray
and neutron scattering to the study of surface-induced
critical phenomena. With the advent of even more advanced
synchrotron radiation sources and new sophisticated
instrumentation this novel technique is expected to
experience a boom.
The comprehensive and detailed presentation of theoretical
and experimental aspects of the scattering of evanascent
x-ray and neutron waves inside a solid makes this book
particularly useful for tutorial courses.
Particular emphasis is put on the use of this technique to
extract microscopic information (correlation functions) from
the real structure of a surface, from buried and magnetic
interfaces and from surface roughness.