Dynamics of Crystal Surfaces and Interfaces

✍ Scribed by Branislav Blagojevic, Phillip M. Duxbury (auth.), P. M. Duxbury, T. J. Pence (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Series: Fundamental Materials Research
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, and engineering, with length scales ranging from Ångstroms up to millimeters. The emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications. Each book focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading experts to give an up-to-date discussion of their work and the work of others. Each article contains enough references that the interested reader can access the relevant literature. Thanks are given to the Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University for supporting this series. M. F. Thorpe, Series Editor E-mail: thorpe@pa. msu. edu v PREFACE th th During the period 4 -8 August 1996, a conference with the same title as this book was held in Traverse City, Michigan. That conference was organized as a sequel to an interesting and successful WEM workshop in a similar area run by Profs. Hans Bonzel and Bill Mullins in May 1995. This book contains papers presented at the Traverse City conference. The book focuses on: atomic processes, step structure and dynamics; and their effect on surface and interface structures and on the relaxation kinetics of larger leng- scale nonequilibrium morphologies.

✦ Table of Contents

From Atomic Diffusion to Step Dynamics....Pages 1-22
Atomic Steps in the Decay of 1- and 2- Dimensional Gratings....Pages 23-39
Morphologies of Periodic Surface Profiles and Small Particles: A Source of Step and Step Interaction Energies....Pages 41-52
Anisotropy of Wetting of PB Crystals By Their Own Melt and By Liquid GA-PB Alloys....Pages 53-58
Relaxation of Nanometer-Scale Surface Morphology....Pages 59-70
Smoothing of a Grooved Singular Surface Whose Neighboring Orientations are Unstable....Pages 71-81
Step Fluctuations: From Equilibrium Analysis to Step Unbunching and Cluster Diffusion in a Unified Picture....Pages 83-96
Kinetic Rate Law Issues in the Morphological Relaxation of Rippled Crystal Surfaces....Pages 97-107
Grain Boundary Motion in Aluminium Bicrystals....Pages 109-123
An Instability Analysis of Heteroepitaxial Interfaces Via a Discrete Atom Method....Pages 125-134
Ab Initio Simulations of the Si (100) Surface: Steps and Melting....Pages 135-145
Relaxation of Surface Steps Towards Equilibrium....Pages 147-157
Coarsening of MBE Structures in 2+1 Dimensions....Pages 159-167
Flattenning of Grooves: From Step Dynamics to Continuum Theory....Pages 169-184
Nucleation and Growth in Elastodynamics....Pages 185-197
Two-Dimensional Models for Step Dynamics....Pages 199-216
Networks of Steps on Au and Pt Crystals....Pages 217-230
Coupled Chemical and Faceting Surface Phase Transitions....Pages 231-238

✦ Subjects

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy