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 …

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 …

A transparent poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) nanocomposite thin film (30–50nm) reinforced with
core/shell cadmium selenide (CdSe)/zinc sulfide (ZnS) quantum dots (QDs) was fabricated …

The erosion of materials with energetic ions is an indispensable tool in the laboratory and
the industry. The ion–solid collision process leading to the ejection of atoms contains …

During the growth of ultrathin Bi films, Bi (110) islands with a black phosphorus (BP)-like
structure nucleate initially. These Bi (110) islands reorganize to Bi (111) islands with a …

A scanning tunneling microscopy investigation of the morphological evolution of Pt (111)
upon removal of 0.2 to 680 atomic layers by 1 keV Xe+ ion bombardment at normal …

Scanning-tunneling microscopy studies combined with atomistic modeling for Ag/Ag (100)
homoepitaxy reveal complex growth behavior at 300 K: initial smooth growth up to∼ 25 ML …

We study the effect of crystal symmetry and step-edge diffusion on the surface current
governing the evolution of a growing crystal surface. We find there are two possible …

Using a dual molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE)–pulsed laser deposition (PLD) ultrahigh
vacuum chamber, we have conducted the first experiments under identical thermal …

The temperature dependent morphological evolution of Pt (111) under 1 keV Xe+ normal
incidence ion bombardment has been investigated up to 600 monolayers removed …