Collective Diffusion on Surfaces: Correlation Effects and Adatom Interactions: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Collective ... II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 29) - Hardcover

Book 32 of 241: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
 
9780792371151: Collective Diffusion on Surfaces: Correlation Effects and Adatom Interactions: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Collective ... II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 29)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0792371151 ISBN 13: 9780792371151
Publisher: Springer, 2001

Synopsis

As materials research focuses into finding ways to control the growth of atomic scale structures, there is correspondingly increasing emphasis on to the problem of surface diffusion. Clearly surface diffusion is the key process, which determines how atoms move on the surface. Controlling this motion can lead to the easy fabrication of well-controlled nanostructures broadening the present possibilities in nanotechnology. The paradigm of surface diffusion has outgrown its standard textbook description as a random walk on a rigid substrate. In real systems for more complex situations are encountered: interacting atoms are commonly present on the surface with their motions highly correlated, different phases form on the surface with different dynamics, large concentration gradients drive the system far away from the linear response regime, rich metastable structures form as a result of balanced interplay between different kinetic processes, substrate relaxation can change the energy landscape and the diffusion barriers, etc. The motivation behind this ARW was to bring together the international community working on these problems. We felt that the large number of researchers, new results, and well-formulated open questions in this area require some form of integration in a single forum. The ARW and the upcoming proceedings book with papers by the majority of the participants has provided this forum. The meeting was not planned as a continuation of the earlier NATO ASI in Rhodes in 1996, although several people have participated in both meetings.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0792371151
ISBN 13 
9780792371151
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
367
Editor
Tringides M.C., Chvoj Z.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780792371168: Collective Diffusion on Surfaces: Correlation Effects and Adatom Interactions: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Collective ... II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 29)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  079237116X ISBN 13:  9780792371168
Publisher: Springer, 2001
Softcover