  The influence of surface defects on the critical properties of magnetic films
is studied for Ising models with nearest-neighbour ferromagnetic couplings. The
defects include one or two adjacent lines of additional atoms and a step on the
surface. For the calculations, both density-matrix renormalization group and
Monte Carlo techniques are used. By changing the local couplings at the defects
and the film thickness, non-universal features as well as interesting crossover
phenomena in the magnetic exponents are observed.
