Nucleation Theory and Growth of Nanostructures

Semiconductor nanostructures such as nanowires are promising building blocks of future nanoelectronic, nanophotonic and nanosensing devices. Their physical properties are primarily determined by the epitaxy process which is rather different from the conventional thin film growth. This book shows how the advanced nucleation theory can be used in modeling of growth properties, morphology and crystal phase of such nanostructures. The book represents a systematic account of modern nucleation theory in open systems, nanostructure nucleation and growth mechanisms, and possibilities for tuning the nanostructure properties to the desired values.

List of contents

Foreword by Zh. I. Alferov.- Introduction.- Fundamentals of nucleation theory.- Kinetics of phase transition.- Quantum dots and nanoneedles.- Growth of semiconductor nanowires.- Crystal structure of III-V nanowires.

About the author

Head of the Department of theoretical physics
Deputy Director of Nanotechnology Centre
Head of the Laboratory of physics of nanostructures
Coordinator of Associated International Laboratory “Nanostructures of compound semiconductors, Growth, Properties, Devices” (ILNACS)
Deputy Director of Russian-Chinese joint laboratory “Zh.I. Alferov laboratory of information optoelectronics and nanoheterostructures”

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir G. Dubrovskii
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2013
• EAN: 9783642396595
• ISBN: 978-3-642-39659-5
• No. of pages: 601
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 37 mm
• Weight: 1023 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 601 p. 358 illus., 126 illus. in color.
• Series: NanoScience and Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; B, Chemistry and Materials Science, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Optical and Electronic Materials, Other manufacturing technologies, Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Nanostructures, Nanoscale science, Nanophysics, Nanoscience, Electronic materials, Electronic devices & materials, Optical Materials, Crystallography, Semiconductors, Interfaces (Physical sciences), Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Surface and Interface and Thin Film, Thin films, Surfaces (Physics), Microsystems and MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microengineering