Ice-crystal growth in supercooled water is one of the most familiar examples of phase-
transition dynamics, playing essential roles in various natural phenomena on Earth. Despite …

Different patterns can be created on the surface of growing crystals, among which the step
bunches and/or step meanders are two of the most studied. The Ehrlich–Schwoebel effect at …

The effect of step–step exclusion on growing vicinal surfaces destabilized by a step-up (SU)
or step-down (SD) driving force is extensively studied in diffusion-limited (DL) and kinetics …

The directional atom drift under direct electric current (DC) flowing through a sample is a
unique tool for the surface morphology manipulation, which was previously studied in detail …

We propose an integrated modeling approach to the fundamental problem of vicinal crystal
surfaces destabilized by step-down (SD) and step-up (SU) currents with focus on both the …

The growth of a crystal is usually determined by its surface. Many factors influence the
growth dynamics. Energy barriers associated with the presence of steps most often decide …

The bunching of steps at the surface of growing and sublimating crystals can be induced by
both directions of the electromigration force acting on the adatoms, step-up and step-down …

We report on transformations of the vicinal (1 0 0) surface of single crystalline SrTiO 3 upon
annealing in air at high temperatures. The surface (decomposes) facets into a step and …

The step-flow and spiral growth of a multicomponent crystal are considered from vapors,
taking into account the different possible Schwoebel barriers for each component within the …

Electromigration, due to its technological and scientific significance, has been a subject of
extensive studies for many years. We present evidence of electromigration in dielectric …