Physics of crystal growth

Preface List of symbols 1. Morphology of a crystal surface 2. Surface free energy, step free energy, and chemical potential 3. The equilibrium crystal shape 4. Growth and dissolution crystal shapes: Frank's model 5. Crystal growth: the abc 6. Growth and evaporation of a stepped surface 7. Diffusion 8. Thermal smoothing of a surface 9. Silicon and other semiconducting materials 10. Growth instabilities of a planar front 11. Nucleation and the adatom diffusion length 12. Growth roughness at long lengthscales in the linear approximation 13. The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation 14. Growth without evaporation 15. Elastic interactions between defects on a crystal surface 16. General equations of an elastic solid 17. Technology, crystal growth and surface science Appendices References Index.