Dynamics of Crystal Surfaces and Interfaces

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Duxbury, P. M. (Editor), Pence, T. J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Fundamental Materials Research,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Solid state physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Materials Science.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, and engineering, with length scales rangin...

Table of Contents:

• From Atomic Diffusion to Step Dynamics
• Atomic Steps in the Decay of 1- and 2- Dimensional Gratings
• Morphologies of Periodic Surface Profiles and Small Particles: A Source of Step and Step Interaction Energies
• Anisotropy of Wetting of PB Crystals By Their Own Melt and By Liquid GA-PB Alloys
• Relaxation of Nanometer-Scale Surface Morphology
• Smoothing of a Grooved Singular Surface Whose Neighboring Orientations are Unstable
• Step Fluctuations: From Equilibrium Analysis to Step Unbunching and Cluster Diffusion in a Unified Picture
• Kinetic Rate Law Issues in the Morphological Relaxation of Rippled Crystal Surfaces
• Grain Boundary Motion in Aluminium Bicrystals
• An Instability Analysis of Heteroepitaxial Interfaces Via a Discrete Atom Method
• Ab Initio Simulations of the Si (100) Surface: Steps and Melting
• Relaxation of Surface Steps Towards Equilibrium
• Coarsening of MBE Structures in 2+1 Dimensions
• Flattenning of Grooves: From Step Dynamics to Continuum Theory
• Nucleation and Growth in Elastodynamics
• Two-Dimensional Models for Step Dynamics
• Networks of Steps on Au and Pt Crystals
• Coupled Chemical and Faceting Surface Phase Transitions.