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).About:
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.read more
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Thermodynamic driving force of formation of coherent three-dimensional islands in Stranski-Krastanov growth
José Emilio Prieto,Ivan Markov +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of coherent 3D islands in highly mismatched epitaxy is discussed in terms of the traditional concept of wetting, and it is shown that the wetting layer and the 3D island represent different phases which cannot be in equilibrium with each other.
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Elastic interactions and kinetics during reversible submonolayer growth: Monte Carlo simulations
Jean-Noël Aqua,Thomas Frisch +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the reversible submonolayer heteroepitaxial growth is studied by means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a simple model with short and long-range interactions.
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Nanostructuring of Fe films by oblique incidence deposition on a FeSi2 template onto Si(111) : Growth, morphology, structure and faceting
J.L. Bubendorff,G. Garreau,S. Zabrocki,Dominique Berling,Rached Jaafar,S. Hajjar,Ahmed Mehdaoui,Candido Pirri +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the growth of thin Fe films deposited at oblique incidence on an iron silicide template onto Si(1/1) single crystal has been investigated as a function of Fe thickness and incidence angle.
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Instability types at ion-assisted alloy deposition: from two-dimensional to three-dimensional nanopattern growth
G. Abrasonis,Klaus Morawetz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an interplay between curvature-dependent ion-driven and deposition-driven instabilities is investigated, and it is shown that the ion-to-atom arrival ratio is the pattern control parameter.
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Kinetics of step bunching during growth: a minimal model.
TL;DR: A minimal stochastic model of step bunching during growth on a one-dimensional vicinal surface and an analytic description of the speed and profile of stationary bunches is developed, and a connection to the problem of front propagation into an unstable state is pointed out.
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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
John Price Hirth,Jens Lothe +1 more
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
John W. Cahn,John E. Hilliard +1 more
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.
Mario Norberto Baibich,J. M. Broto,Albert Fert,F. Nguyen Van Dau,Frédéric Petroff,P. Etienne,G. Creuzet,A. Friederich,Jean Chazelas +8 more
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
I.M. Lifshitz,V.V. Slyozov +1 more
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.