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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Mound formation in surface growth under shadowing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the morphological evolution of thin films grown by commonly employed deposition techniques, such as sputtering and chemical vapor deposition, and show that a mounded structure can be formed with a characteristic length scale, or "wavelength", which describes the separation of the mounds.
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Four lectures on the physics of crystal growth
TL;DR: Several aspects of the theory of epitaxial crystal growth from atomic or molecular beams are developed from the perspective of statistical physics as mentioned in this paper, including the rate equation theory of two-dimensional nucleation and its limitations.
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Computation of strained epitaxial growth in three dimensions by kinetic Monte Carlo
Giovanni Russo,Peter Smereka +1 more
TL;DR: Numerical results show that layer-by-layer growth is unstable if the misfit is large enough resulting in the formation of three dimensional islands.
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Phase-field-crystal dynamics for binary systems: Derivation from dynamical density functional theory, amplitude equation formalism, and applications to alloy heterostructures.
TL;DR: Results of a sample application to the study of surface segregation and interface intermixing in alloy heterostructures and strained layer growth are presented, showing the effects of different atomic sizes and mobilities of alloy components.
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Recipes for the fabrication of strictly ordered Ge islands on pit-patterned Si(001) substrates
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the wetting layer between pits can play the role of a stabilizer that inhibits shape transformations of ordered islands and allow us to fabricate perfectly ordered and homogeneous Ge islands on one and the same sample, even if the pit period is varied from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres.
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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.