This review describes recent progress in the understanding of the emergence of scale
invariance in far-from-equilibrium growth. The first section is devoted to 'solvable'needle …

Homoepitaxy provides an ideal testing ground for fundamental concepts in film growth. The
rich variety of complex far-from-equilibrium morphologies which can form during deposition …

Understanding the energy it takes to build or break chemical bonds is essential for scientists
and engineers in a wide range of innovative fields, including catalysis, nanomaterials …

Growth of thin films from atoms deposited from the gas phase is intrinsically a
nonequilibrium phenomenon governed by a competition between kinetics and …

Crystal growth far from thermodynamic equilibrium is nothing but homoepitaxy-thin film
growth on a crystalline substrate of the same material. Because of the absence of misfit …

We review in this article the current theoretical understanding of collective and single
particle diffusion on surfaces and how it relates to the existing experimental data. We begin …

The investigation of step and island dynamics on surfaces has enormously contributed to the
microscopic understanding of mass transport processes in equilibrium, during growth and …

The condensation and assembly of atomic fluxes incident upon the surface of a thin film
during its growth by vapor deposition is complex. Mediating the growth process by varying …

Dopants and defects are important in semiconductor and magnetic devices. Strategies for
controlling doping and defects have been the focus of semiconductor physics research …

When growing a crystal, a planar front is desired for most of the applications. This plane
shape is often destroyed by instabilities of various types. In the case of growth from a …