Homoepitaxy provides an ideal testing ground for fundamental concepts in film growth. The
rich variety of complex far-from-equilibrium morphologies which can form during deposition …

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 …

Understanding the energy it takes to build or break chemical bonds is essential for scientists
and engineers in a wide range of innovative fields, including catalysis, nanomaterials …

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 …

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 …

By means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of the self-organized growth of quantum dots in
strained semiconductor systems we resolve the seemingly contradictory features of kinetic …

We use a combined experimental and theoretical approach to study the rates of surface
diffusion processes that govern early stages of thin Ag and Cu film morphological evolution …

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we study the post-deposition coarsening of
distributions of large, two-dimensional Ag islands on a perfect Ag100 surface at 295 K. The …

Fast edge diffusion leads to a diffusion bias during molecular beam epitaxy. Kinetic Monte
Carlo simulations on a solid-on-solid model incorporating fast edge diffusion clearly show …

We examine the capture of diffusing Ag adatoms by arrays of two-dimensional Ag islands
subsequent to deposition on Ag (100) at room temperature. This is achieved by a …