Atomistic Aspects of Epitaxial Growth

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Experimental Study of Surface Diffusion in Metal Overlayers on Anisotropic Metal Surfaces....Pages 1-18
Ab Initio Modeling of Free Energy Profiles in Thermally Activated Processes....Pages 19-29
Surface Diffusion With a Realistic Damping Coefficient....Pages 31-42
Vibrational and Structural Properties of the Nb (001) Surface With and Without a Nb Adatom by Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics....Pages 43-49
Adatoms and Vacancies on A 3 B(001) Surfaces....Pages 51-61
Long-Time-Scale Simulations of Al(100) Crystal Growth....Pages 63-74
Diffusion of Dimers on Silicon and Germanium (001) Surfaces....Pages 75-85
Island Nucleation in Metal Thin-Film Growth....Pages 87-97
Capture-Numbers and Island Size-Distributions in Irreversible Homoepitaxial Growth: A Rate Equation Approach....Pages 99-109
Island Statistics Reflecting Growth Processes....Pages 111-120
Growth of an Anisotropic Surface: The Case of Ag/Ag(110)....Pages 121-127
Vibrational Properties of 2D Copper Islands on the CU(111) Surface by MD Simulations....Pages 129-134
Irreversible Nucleation in Multilayer Growth....Pages 135-144
Second Layer Nucleation and the Shape of Wedding Cakes....Pages 145-163
Steering Epitaxial Growth....Pages 165-184
Coarsening Mechanisms in Surface Morphological Evolution....Pages 185-196
Realistic Atomistic Modeling of Mound Formation During Multilayer Growth: Metal(100) Homoepitaxy....Pages 197-206
Patterning Surfaces by Self-Organized Growth....Pages 207-218
Growth and Ion Erosion: Two Methods for Patterning Surfaces....Pages 221-241
Oscillatory Driving of Crystal Surfaces: A Route to Controlled Pattern Formation....Pages 243-253
Reconstruction-Determined Growth of Silver on Silicon(111)—(7×7)....Pages 255-265
Electromigration of si Adatoms on si Surfaces: A Key to Understanding Step Bunching Instabilities During Sublimation and Mbe Growth....Pages 267-279
Atomic Steps on a Single-Crystal Surface Studied With in Situ Uhv Reflection-Electron Microscopy....Pages 281-299
Mechanisms and Anomalies in The Formation of Inas—Gaas(001) Quantum Dot Structures....Pages 301-325
Ab Initio Study of Stability of Surfaces and Nanostructures....Pages 327-335
Atomistic and Continuum Elastic Effects in Heteroepitaxial Systems....Pages 337-353
Ab Initio Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Diffusion, Growth, and Self- Assembly of Quantum Dots....Pages 355-369
Atomistic Aspects of Sige Nanostructure Formation by Molecular-Beam Epitaxy....Pages 371-381
Stress-Induced Surface Modulation....Pages 383-396
Entropy Effects in the Self-Organized Formation of Nanostructures....Pages 397-409
Dislocation-Free 3D Islands in Highly Mismatched Epitaxy: An Equilibrium Study With Anharmonic Interactions....Pages 411-428
Self-Assembly of Few-Atom Clusters in a Model of a Strained Submonolayer....Pages 429-437
Ab-Initio Study of The Influence of Epitaxial Strain on Magnetoelastic Properties....Pages 439-447
Strain Characterization of Epitaxially-Grown Superlattices by Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 449-455
Effect of Annealing At High Hydrostatic Pressure of Silicon Implanted with Helium and Oxygen....Pages 457-466
Effect of High Temperature-Pressure on Strain Relaxation in Thin Layers of Semiconductors Epitaxially Grown on Gaas and Si Substrates....Pages 467-475
Atomic View of Surfactant Action in Epitaxial Growth: From STM to Computer Simulation....Pages 477-488
Effects of Atomic Interactions in Two-Component Submonolayer Growth....Pages 489-498
Ultrathin Ionic Films Epitaxially Grown on III-V Semiconductors Studied With Atomic Resolution....Pages 499-509
Ultraviolet-Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Oxide Films....Pages 511-524
Atomistic Theory of the Growth Mode for a Thin Metallic Film on an Isulating Substrate....Pages 525-534
Structure and Formation Mechanism of Nanogranular CoCu Films....Pages 535-550
Photoemission Studies of Bimetallic Ultrathin Films: Au-Ni on Yttria-Stabilised ZRO 2 (100)....Pages 551-560
Ab-Initio Calculations on the Structural and Electronic Properties of BaO/BatiO3 And SrO/SrTiO 3 Interfaces....Pages 561-571
Atomic Ordering and its Influence on the Optical and Electrical Properties of InGaP Grown by MOVPE....Pages 573-582
Nanoscopic Study of Zirconia Films Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition....Pages 583-591
Back Matter....Pages 593-604