Atomistic Aspects of Epitaxial Growth: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Held in Dasia, Corfu, Greece, June 25-30, 2001 (NATO Science ... Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Book 65)

Epitaxial growth lies at the heart of a wide range of industrial and technological applications. Recent breakthroughs, experimental and theoretical, allow actual atom-by-atom manipulation and an understanding of such processes, opening up a totally new area of unprecedented nanostructuring. The contributions to Atomistic Aspects of Epitaxial Growth are divided into five main sections, taking the reader from the atomistic details of surface diffusion to the macroscopic description of epitaxial systems. many of the papers contain substantial background material on theoretical and experimental methods, making the book suitable for both graduate students as a supplementary text in a course on epitaxial phenomena, and for professionals in the field. 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