The last two decades of progress in the theory of crystal surfaces in and out of equilibrium is
reviewed. Various instabilities that occur during growth and sublimation, or that are caused …

Scientific interest in atomically controlled layer-by-layer fabrication of transition metal oxide
thin films and heterostructures has increased intensely in recent decades for basic physics …

Since the first studies in the late 1970s most of the researches on Si1− xGex nanostructures
have been motivated by their potential applications in micro, opto and nanoelectronic …

The purpose of this work was to examine the effects of polished crystal-surface orientation
and degree of solution undersaturation on the dissolution kinetics of calcite. Crystallographic …

A data-driven approach is used to describe the growth of crystals and thin films based on
high-throughput numerical experiments. This way the Machine Learning (ML) helps to …

The anisotropic surface free energy, Andreev surface free energy and equilibrium crystal
shape (ECS) z= z (x, y) are calculated numerically using a transfer matrix approach with the …

The formation and evolution of step bunching during step-flow growth of 6H-SiC (0001)
surfaces were studied by three-dimensional kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method and …

We report the observation of bunching of monoatomic steps on vicinal W (110) surfaces
induced by step-up or step-down currents across the steps. Measurements reveal that the …

New types of unstable homoepitaxial growth of vicinal Si (111)-(7× 7) surfaces are studied
using ex situ atomic force microscopy. The growth features are two types of step bunching …

Understanding and predicting quantum dots ordering is a central problem for many physical
processes. Here, we investigate the mechanisms which govern the self-assembling of Ge …