This article reviews efforts to structurally characterize metallic nanocontacts. While the
electronic characterization of such junctions is relatively straight forward, usually it is …

Improving the durability and sustainability of concrete structures has been driving the
enormous number of research papers on self-healing mechanisms that have been …

In this article we present a thermal coupling to a recently published two-time scale phase
field crystal model (MPFC) to describe latent heat contributions of systems undergoing rapid …

In a recent class of phase field crystal (PFC) models, the density order parameter is coupled
to powers of its mean field. This effectively introduces a phenomenology of higher-order …

Crystal lattice deformations can be described microscopically by explicitly accounting for the
position of atoms or macroscopically by continuum elasticity. In this work, we report on the …

We employ the phase-field method to assess electromigration (EM) damage in wide
polycrystalline interconnects due to grain-boundary grooving. An interplay of surface and …

The study of polycrystalline materials requires theoretical and computational techniques
enabling multiscale investigations. The amplitude expansion of the phase-field crystal model …

Abstract We present OpenPFC (https://github. com/VTT-ProperTune/OpenPFC), a state-of-
the-art phase field crystal (PFC) simulation platform designed to be scalable for massive …

We introduce a phase-field crystal model that creates an array of complex three-and two-
dimensional crystal structures via a numerically tractable three-point correlation function …

We report the observation of bunching of monoatomic steps on vicinal W (110) surfaces
induced by step-up or step-down currents across the steps. Measurements reveal that the …