The investigation of step and island dynamics on surfaces has enormously contributed to the
microscopic understanding of mass transport processes in equilibrium, during growth and …

The traditional view of the surface diffusion of metal atoms on metal surfaces was that atoms
carry on a random walk between nearest-neighbor surface sites. Through field ion …

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 …

The properties of steps in thermal equilibrium are described in the context of prediction of
the stability and evolution of nanostructures on surfaces. Experimental techniques for …

For the first time, this book unites the theory, experimental techniques and computational
tools used to describe the diffusion of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles across metal …

The results of a detailed study of the evolution, scaling, and percolation of islands in a model
of submonolayer molecular-beam epitaxy appropriate for the case of dendritic island growth …

The atomic-scale surface structure plays a major role in the electrochemical behaviour of a
catalyst. The electrocatalytic activity towards many relevant reactions, such as the oxygen …

Using density-functional theory we investigate properties of Al (111), Al (100), Al (110), and
stepped Al (111) surfaces, including formation energies of surfaces, steps, adatoms, and …

We have studied the decay of two-dimensional Ag islands on Ag (111) at room temperature
by scanning tunneling microscopy. The results are in accordance with the classical …

The classical thermodynamics of surfaces is presented in terms of an atomic level picture in
which steps serve as the undamental unit. The important energy parameters which …