In the effort to develop disruptive quantum technologies, germanium is emerging as a
versatile material to realize devices capable of encoding, processing and transmitting …

Nanoparticles can be beautiful, as in stained glass windows, or they can be ugly as in wear
and corrosion debris from implants. We estimate that there will be about 70 000 papers in …

Molecular Beam Epitaxy describes a technique in wide-spread use for the production of high-
quality semiconductor devices. It discusses the most important aspects of the MBE …

The oxidation and corrosion of metals are fundamental problems in materials science and
technology that have been studied using a large variety of experimental and computational …

Nucleation theory provides a powerful tool for growth modeling of a variety of objects: from
liquid droplets to thin solid films and biological structures. Theoretical approaches based on …

The 2D-3D growth mode transition during the initial stages of growth of highly strained
InGaAs on GaAs is used to obtain quantum-sized dot structures. Transmission electron …

A review is given of theoretical concepts and experimental results on spontaneous formation
of periodically ordered nanometer-scale structures on crystal surfaces. Thermodynamic …

In the past decade there have been many theoretical and experimental efforts to study the
mechanisms of solid state dewetting, that means the spontaneous agglomeration of a thin …

Low threshold, large To injection laser emission via zero-dimensional states in (InGa) As
quantum dots is demonstrated. The dots are formed due to a morphological transformation …

We show that strained epitaxial layers can relax by two competing mechanisms. At large
misfit, the surface becomes rough, allowing easy nucleation of dislocations. However, strain …