Solid films are usually metastable or unstable in the as-deposited state, and they will dewet
or agglomerate to form islands when heated to sufficiently high temperatures. This process …

In the past decade there have been many theoretical and experimental efforts to study the
mechanisms of solid state dewetting, that means the spontaneous agglomeration of a thin …

The thermal agglomeration of ultrathin (< 30 nm) single crystal silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
films is a morphological evolution phenomenon with practical and scientific importance. This …

Accurately modeling solid-state dewetting in materials with strong crystalline anisotropy is
an open problem in materials science with importance for both the manufacturing and …

A method has been developed to calculate and use a surface chemical potential which is
valid in the large curvature regime for any surface energy function. It is applied to the solid …

At elevated temperatures, single crystal thin films sometimes undergo solid-state dewetting
to form holes and islands with anisotropic morphologies and regular features. We have …

The exploration of crystalline nanostructures enhances the understanding of quantum
phenomena occurring in spatially confined quantum matter and may lead to functional …

Using low-energy electron microscopy movies, we have measured the dewetting dynamics
of single-crystal Si (001) thin films on SiO 2 substrates. During annealing (T> 700 C), voids …

We report studies of complex morphological evolution during solid-state dewetting of 120
nm thick single-crystal Ni (100) and Ni (110) thin films on MgO (100) and MgO (110) …

The solid-state dewetting phenomenon in Ge layers on SiO2 is investigated as a function of
layer thickness d Ge (from 10 to 86 nm) and annealing temperature. The dewetting is …