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 …

This paper presents simple models useful in analyzing the growth of nanostructures
obtained by cluster deposition. After a brief survey of applications and experimental …

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) like molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and tungsten
disulfide (WS2) are layered materials capable of growth to one monolayer thickness via …

What are the mechanisms leading to the shape relaxation of three-dimensional crystallites?
Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of fcc clusters show that the usual theories of equilibration …

Molecular-dynamics simulations show that the coalescence of iron nanoclusters (Fe N+ Fe
N→ Fe 2 N, where up to 2 N= 10 000 atoms, or a diameter of 6 nm, has been studied) occurs …

Self-assembly of supported 2D or 3D nanocrystals (NCs) by vacuum deposition and of 3D
NCs by solution-phase synthesis (with possible subsequent transfer to a support) produces …

The control of domain morphology and defect level of synthesized transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) is of crucial importance for their device applications. However …

We present a detailed molecular-dynamics study of the diffusion and coalescence of large
(249-atom) gold clusters on graphite surfaces. The diffusivity of clusters is found to be …

We describe experimental observations and theoretical analysis of the coarsening of
distributions of two-dimensional nanoclusters, either adatom islands or vacancy pits, on …

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 …