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Instabilities in crystal growth by atomic or molecular beams

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In this paper, a review of the most frequent instabilities in ballistic growth is presented, which are mostly kinetic (when the desired state cannot be reached because of a lack of time) or thermodynamic (when a desired state is unstable).
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This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 235 citations till now.

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Multilayer growth of Agð 110 Þ: a simulation study

TL;DR: The multilayer growth of Ag/Ag(1 1 0) is studied by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations based on model in the full fcc geometry with realistic activation barriers, able to describe both the island rotation in the submonolayer regime and the ripple rotation in multilayers growth, in very good quantitative agreement with the experiments.
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Atomistic basis for continuum growth equation: Description of morphological evolution of GaAs during molecular beam epitaxy

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the surface shape evolution during epitaxial growth of GaAs with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a solid-on-solid model and numerical solutions of a continuum growth equation derived from an adatom transport equation is presented.
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Coexistence of meandering and bunching of steps on vicinal surfaces

TL;DR: In this article, water adsorption on the hydroxylated alpha-quartz (0001) surface at various coverages was studied using ab initio total energy calculations and molecular dynamics simulations within density functional theory.

Self-assembled Metallic Dots and Antidots: Epitaxial Co on Ru(0001)

TL;DR: In this paper, a metal-on-metal growth mode was observed where three-dimensional islands (dots) or a flat film network with holes (antidots) in truncated pyramidal shapes exist below or above ∼ 20 nm, respectively.
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Enhanced radiation tolerance of nanochannel V films through defects release

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that He + ion irradiation can increase the density of small bubbles in the free surfaces of the nanochannels, which greatly reduces the concentration of defects in material and increases the radiation tolerance.
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Theory of elasticity

TL;DR: The theory of the slipline field is used in this article to solve the problem of stable and non-stressed problems in plane strains in a plane-strain scenario.
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Theory of Dislocations

TL;DR: Dislocations in Isotropic Continua: Effects of Crystal Structure on Dislocations and Dislocation-Point-Defect Interactions at Finite temperatures.
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Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the thickness of the interface increases with increasing temperature and becomes infinite at the critical temperature Tc, and that at a temperature T just below Tc the interfacial free energy σ is proportional to (T c −T) 3 2.
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Giant magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr magnetic superlattices.

TL;DR: This work ascribes this giant magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr superlattices prepared by molecularbeam epitaxy to spin-dependent transmission of the conduction electrons between Fe layers through Cr layers.
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The kinetics of precipitation from supersaturated solid solutions

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis is made of the process whereby diffusion effects can cause the precipitation of grains of a second phase in a supersaturated solid solution, and the kinetics of this type of grain growth are examined in detail.