Melting in adsorbed films. Final report

This grant ran from February 1, 1981 to January 31, 1995. It resulted in a rich output of experimental results that will have a lasting impact on the field of phase transitions in lower dimensions. It produced 33 formal publications and 7 pH.D. theses. It has also opened the door for ongoing research, for which continued funding is being sought. The scientific output of the project has been detailed in a series of progress reports that need not be summarized here. Instead the author has appended to this report a list of all the publications and theses arising out of this grant, plus copies of those papers published in the last two years. The most recent paper, published in Physical Review Letters in January 1995, the last month of the grant, explains the remarkable phenomenon of reentrant layering in thin adsorbed films, and opens a dramatic new class of possible phases and phase transitions at crystal surfaces. Perhaps the most important consequence of this grant is the fine group of scientists it produced