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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Elastic Misfit Strain Relaxation in Highly Strained InAs Dots on GaAs as Studied by Tem, AFM and VFF Atomistic Calculations
Y. Androussi,P. François,A. Lefebvre,C. Priester,I. Lefebvre,G. Allan,M. Lannoo,J. M. Moison,N. Lebouché,F. Barthe +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the dot strain fields used for the TEM contrast simulations are either deduced from continuous elastic models or determined by valence force field (VFF) atomistic calculations.
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Some recent advances in the simulation of diffusion limited aggregation and related processes
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the fractal dimensionality of DLA models with high symmetry belongs to the same universality class as off-lattice DLA but that models of low symmetry are non-universal.
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Enhancement of alloy segregation due to strain assisted atomic diffusion in heteroepitaxy
Catherine Priester,Michel Lannoo +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, stress-driven atomic exchanges in inhomogeneously strained systems in order to derive the stable equilibrium atomic distribution are studied. But the authors focus on stress driven atomic exchanges and do not consider surface effects.
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La structure du coeur des dislocations dans le silicium cz etudiee par microscopie electronique
TL;DR: Les images de diverses dislocations par microscopie electronique haute resolution de silicium CZ ont fourni des renseignements structuraux sur le coeur as discussed by the authors.
Dissertation
Elasticite et croissance cristalline
TL;DR: In this article, le developpement technologique de la croissance heteroepitaxiale par jets moleculaires a engendre un regain d'interet for les effets de l'elasticite, lors of the croissance d'un cristal.