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 …

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 …

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 …

Crystal growth far from thermodynamic equilibrium is nothing but homoepitaxy-thin film
growth on a crystalline substrate of the same material. Because of the absence of misfit …

The properties of steps in thermal equilibrium are described in the context of prediction of
the stability and evolution of nanostructures on surfaces. Experimental techniques for …

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 …

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 …

Using density-functional theory with the local-density approximation and the generalized
gradient approximation we compute the energy barriers for surface diffusion for Ag on Pt …

We analyze the electron densities n (r) of atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces. The
distributions of values of the Seitz radius rs(3/4 n) 1/3 and the reduced density gradient sn/(2 …