Homoepitaxy provides an ideal testing ground for fundamental concepts in film growth. The
rich variety of complex far-from-equilibrium morphologies which can form during deposition …

This article reviews recent advances in the development of reactive empirical force fields or
potentials. In particular, we compare two widely used reactive potentials with variable …

The package fhi98PP allows one to generate norm-conserving pseudopotentials adapted to
density-functional theory total-energy calculations for a multitude of elements throughout the …

When collimated beams of low energy ions are used to bombard materials, the surface often
develops a periodic pattern or “ripple” structure. Different types of patterns are observed to …

We review in this article the current theoretical understanding of collective and single
particle diffusion on surfaces and how it relates to the existing experimental data. We begin …

The hop** self diffusion coefficient of an adatom on the (100),(110) and (111) surfaces of
nine FCC metals have been investigated using Monte Carlo variational transition state …

The investigation of step and island dynamics on surfaces has enormously contributed to the
microscopic understanding of mass transport processes in equilibrium, during growth and …

Surface Properties of Electronic Materials is the fifth volume of the series, The Chemical
Physics of Solid Surfaces and Heterogeneous Catalysis. This volume indicates the present …

For the first time, this book unites the theory, experimental techniques and computational
tools used to describe the diffusion of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles across metal …

The traditional view of the surface diffusion of metal atoms on metal surfaces was that atoms
carry on a random walk between nearest-neighbor surface sites. Through field ion …