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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Morphological evolution during epitaxial thin film growth: Formation of 2D islands and 3D mounds
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe submonolayer nucleation and growth of two-dimensional islands during deposition and show that the traditional mean-field treatment is quite successful in capturing the behavior of mean island densities, but it fails to predict island size distributions.
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Making waves: Kinetic processes controlling surface evolution during low energy ion sputtering
Wai-Lun Chan,Eric Chason +1 more
TL;DR: A review of different mechanisms that have been proposed and how they fit together in terms of the kinetic regimes in which they dominate is provided in this paper, with a comparison between theory and experiment is used to highlight strengths and weaknesses in their understanding.
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Self-organization of nanostructures in semiconductor heteroepitaxy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the driving forces of self-organization mechanisms in semiconductor heteroepitaxy and showed that under certain conditions, these mechanisms and their interplay result in self-organized nanostructure arrays with a high degree of uniformity.
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Crystal surfaces in and out of equilibrium: A modern view
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the last two decades of progress in the theory of crystal surfaces in and out of equilibrium is reviewed, focusing on step meandering and bunching, which are two main forms of instabilities encountered on vicinal surfaces.
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Growth and self-organization of SiGe nanostructures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of theoretical concepts and experimental results on the spontaneous formation and self-organization of SiGe quantum dots on silicon substrates, including morphological, structural and compositional properties.
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Slow dynamics of stepped surfaces
TL;DR: In this paper, two kinds of configurations involving steps on surfaces are reviewed, one results from an initially planar vicinal surface, i.e. slightly deviating from a high-symmetry (001) or (111) orientation.
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Bales-Zangwill meandering instability observed in homoepitaxial step-flow growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify this "fingering" with the meandering instability predicted by Bales and Zangwill, resulting from the presence of an adatom uphill current.
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A kinetic criterion for quasi-brittle fracture
TL;DR: In this paper, a new criterion is proposed for quasi-brittle fracture based on the recognition that quasi-static fracture toughness measurements are merely a limiting case of dynamic fracture, and a unique relationship exists between the energy stored ahead of a loaded crack or blunt notch and the velocity of a crack injected into the material by the failure of a microstructural element lying in the zone of elevated stress.
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Structural aspects of the growth of InAs islands on InP substrate
TL;DR: In this article, the Stransky-Krastanov growth mode has been used to grow coherent InAs islands on InP(001) by gas source molecular beam epitaxy and examined by photoluminescence, transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy.
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Kink dynamics in a one-dimensional growing surface
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the problem of scaling up-down symmetry of a high-symmetry crystal surface and derive the analytical form of two different classes of kinks.