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 …

In the present review we summarize original results where 1) we have experimentally
discovered a novel class of spontaneously ordered nanostructures, namely equilibrium …

The use of fractal concepts in understanding various growth phenomena, such as molecular
beam epitaxy (MBE) or fluid flow in porous media, is increasingly important these days. This …

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

Thin films are often grown away from thermodynamic equilibrium and their morphology
becomes determined by kinetics. The final structure of the epitaxial film is decided in the very …

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 review is given of nucleation and growth models as applied to the earliest stages of thin
film growth. Rate equations, kinetic Monte Carlo, and level set simulations are described in …

The dynamic scaling of the island-size distribution in submonolayer epitaxial growth and its
dependence on the critical island size i is studied using a realistic model of epitaxial growth …

Дан обзор оригинальных результатов, в которых: 1) экспериментально открыт новый
класс спонтанно упорядоченных наноструктур—равновесные массивы трехмерных …

The nucleation and growth of two-dimensional islands during the submonolayer stage of
epitaxial growth is studied with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and mean-field rate …