Kinetics of Ordering and Growth at Surfaces

ISBN-13: 9781461279112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 530 str.

Max G. Lagally; Max G. Lagally

Opis

This volume contains the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Kinetics of Ordering and Growth at Surfaces," held in Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, September 18-22, 1989. The workshop's goal was to bring together theorists and experimentalists from two related fields, surface science and thin-film growth, to highlight their common interests and overcome a lack of communication between these two communities. Typically surface scientists are only concerned with the microscopic (atomic) description of solids within one monolayer of the surface. Thin-film growers are usually considered more empirical in their approach, concerned primarily with the "quality of their product," and have not necessarily found it useful to incorporate surface science understanding into their art. This workshop aimed to counter at least in some measure these stereotypes. Its focus was on generating dialogue on the fundamental structural and kinetic processes that lead to the initial stages of film growth, from both the surface science and crystal growth perspectives. To achieve this, alternate days emphasized the view of surface science and thin-film growth, with considerable time for discussion, a format that appeared to succeed well. The success of the workshop is in large measure due to the efforts of the organizing committee, L. C. Feldman, P. K. Larsen, J. A. Venables, and J. Villain, whose advice on the constitution of the program was invaluable.

Spis treści

Content.- I. Two-Dimensional Ordering and Structure.- Kinetics of Ordering and Growth in 2-D Systems.- Growth Kinetics of Wetting Layers at Surfaces.- The Effects of Mobile Vacancies and Impurities on the Kinetics of Ordering at Surfaces.- Atomic Beam Scattering Studies of Ordering at Surfaces.- Helium Atom Scattering Studies of Single Uncorrelated and Correlated Defects on Surfaces.- Growth and Ordering of Ag Submonolayers on Ge(111).- Kinetics of Strain-Induced Domain Formation of Surfaces.- Molecular Kinetics of Steps.- Microscopic Aspects of the Initial Stages of Epitaxial Growth: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Si on Si(001).- Surface Kinetics and Growth Morphology: Theoretical Models and Physical Realizations.- Structure and Ordering of Metal Overlayers on Si(111) and Ge(111) Surfaces.- Development of Structural and Electronic Properties in the Growth of Metals on Semiconductors.- II. Epitaxial Growth.- From Thermodynamics to Quantum Wires: A Review of Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction.- Direct Epitaxial Growth of Quantum Structures with Two and Three-Dimensional Carrier Confinement.- Kinetics in Molecular Beam Epitaxy — Modulated Beam Studies.- Silicon Molecular Beam Epitaxy.- Si Molecular Beam Epitaxy: A Comparison of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observations with Computer Simulations.- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Ge Molecular Beam Epitaxy on Si(111) 7 × 7.- Growth Kinetics on Vicinal (001) Surfaces: The Solid-On-Solid Model of Molecular-Beam Epitaxy.- Structure Bifurcations During Surface Growth.- RHEED Intensities and Oscillations During the Growth of Iron on Iron Whiskers.- III. Morphological Evolution in Surfaces and Films.- Ion Scattering Studies of Surface Melting.- The Roughening Transition of Vicinal Surfaces.- Dynamics of a Crystal Surface Below Its Roughening Transition.- Growth of Rough and Facetted Surfaces.- Growth and Erosion of Thin Solid Films.- Morphology of Crystals Based on Crystallography, Statistical Mechanics, and Thermodynamics: Applications to Si and GaAs.- Studies of Surface Diffusion and Crystal Growth by SEM and STEM.- Three-Dimensional Clustering on Surface: Overlayers on Si.- Strain Relaxation in Ge/Si(001) Studied Using X-Ray Diffraction.- On the Magnetic Properties of Ultrathin Epitaxial Cobalt Films and Superlattices.- Raman Scattering and Disordered Thin-Film Growth Phenomena.