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 …

When growing a crystal, a planar front is desired for most of the applications. This plane
shape is often destroyed by instabilities of various types. In the case of growth from a …

Crystal growth far from thermodynamic equilibrium is nothing but homoepitaxy-thin film
growth on a crystalline substrate of the same material. Because of the absence of misfit …

Homoepitaxy on vicinal surfaces may proceed by either step-flow or step-bunching growth.
This surface morphology transition is correlated with the inverse Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier …

Several aspects of the theory of epitaxial crystal growth from atomic or molecular beams are
developed from the perspective of statistical physics. Lectures are devoted to the rate …

A nonlinear evolution equation for a vicinal surface growing in the step flow mode is derived
in the limit of weak desorption. This limit turns out to be singular, and nonlinearities of …

Electromigration affected sublimation is a complicated phenomenon, involving surface
transport coupled to a process of atom exchange between the two-dimensional gas of …

Epitaxial growth on a vicinal surface in the step flow regime, where the diffusion length
exceeds the step spacing, is studied by simulation of a continuum equation and a solid-on …

We theoretically study step wandering and step bunching induced by the drift of adatoms
with attention to the permeability of steps. The critical drift velocity to induce the instability is …

We demonstrate that the thickness uniformity of chemical vapor deposited graphene
monolayers strongly depends on the pre-annealing conditions of the copper foils used as …