Many recent advances in microelectronics would not have been possible without the
development of strain induced nanodevices and bandgap engineering, in particular …

The last two decades of progress in the theory of crystal surfaces in and out of equilibrium is
reviewed. Various instabilities that occur during growth and sublimation, or that are caused …

Since the first studies in the late 1970s most of the researches on Si1− xGex nanostructures
have been motivated by their potential applications in micro, opto and nanoelectronic …

The critical terrace width λ for 2D island nucleation and growth (2DNG) on large-scale
atomically flat terraces of a step-bunched Si (111)-(7× 7) surface has been studied by in situ …

We report the experimental observation of interrupted coarsening for surface self-organized
nanostructuring by ion erosion. Analysis of the target surface by atomic force microscopy …

In the present article, we introduce a phase-field model for thin-film growth with anisotropic
step energy, attachment kinetics, and diffusion, with second-order (thin-interface) …

A local evolution equation for one-dimensional interfaces is derived in the context of erosion
by ion beam sputtering. We present numerical simulations of this equation which show …

Continuum models have proved their applicability to describe nanopatterns produced by ion-
beam sputtering of amorphous or amorphizable targets at low and medium energies. Here …

We study nanoscale pattern formation on the surface of a solid that is bombarded with two
diametrically opposed, broad ion beams for ion energies low enough that sputtering can be …

We show the existence and uniqueness of solutions (either local or global for small data) for
an equation arising in different aspects of surface growth. Following the work of Koch and …