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Informationen zum Autor Alberto Pimpinelli is Executive Director of the Smalley-Curl Institute and Faculty Fellow in the Materials Science and Nanoengineering Department at Rice University, Houston, full Professor in the Physics Department at the Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, and Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2008 to 2012, he was one of the Attaches for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the US. Trained as a theoretical physicist, Pimpinelli obtained his PhD from the University of Parma, Italy, with a thesis dealing with statistical physics models of magnetism in insulating systems. His interests shifted towards crystal surfaces and crystal growth when, after receiving fellowships from the Accademia dei Lincei and the European Union, he left Italy for the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires and the Laue Langevin Institute in Grenoble (1991–7). In 1997, he was appointed Professor at the Université Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, where he taught statistical and solid state physics, as well as introductory courses in nanosciences. In 2004, he was invited to the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Maryland, where he was appointed Visiting Professor the following year. He has acted as a reviewer for many institutions and scientific agencies, such as the MNEST, the ANR, the NSF, the EU, the EC, and the Romanian Government. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers and book chapters, and has been invited to talk at many international conferences. Zusammenfassung This 1998 study introduces the physical principles of how and why crystals grow! focusing on growth using molecular beam epitaxy. It covers simple models and basic concepts including diffusion! thermal smoothing of a surface! applications to semiconductors! as well as more complex topics such as kinetic roughness! growth instabilities and elastic effects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of symbols; 1. Morphology of a crystal surface; 2. Surface free energy, step free energy, and chemical potential; 3. The equilibrium crystal shape; 4. Growth and dissolution crystal shapes: Frank's model; 5. Crystal growth: the abc; 6. Growth and evaporation of a stepped surface; 7. Diffusion; 8. Thermal smoothing of a surface; 9. Silicon and other semiconducting materials; 10. Growth instabilities of a planar front; 11. Nucleation and the adatom diffusion length; 12. Growth roughness at long lengthscales in the linear approximation; 13. The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation; 14. Growth without evaporation; 15. Elastic interactions between defects on a crystal surface; 16. General equations of an elastic solid; 17. Technology, crystal growth and surface science; Appendices; References; Index....
