A data-driven approach is used to describe the growth of crystals and thin films based on
high-throughput numerical experiments. This way the Machine Learning (ML) helps to …

We report the observation of bunching of monoatomic steps on vicinal W (110) surfaces
induced by step-up or step-down currents across the steps. Measurements reveal that the …

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 …

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 …

We devise a new 1D atomistic scale model of vicinal growth based on Cellular Automaton.
In it the step motion is realized by executing the automaton rule prescribing how adatoms …

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 …

In order to study the unstable step motion on vicinal crystal surfaces we devise vicinal
Cellular Automata. Each cell from the colony has value equal to its height in the vicinal …

The step bunching instability is studied in three models of step motion defined in terms of
ordinary differential equations (ODE). The source of instability in these models is step-step …

We study the evolution of step bunches on vicinal surfaces using a thermodynamically
consistent step-flow model. By accounting for the dynamics of adatom diffusion on terraces …

We review the studies on the scaling of the minimal step-step distance lmin in the bunch with
the bunch size N, lmin∝ N-γ. We build our retrospective around the different values of the …