The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

The focus of this book is on modeling and simulations used in research on the morphological evolution during film growth. The authors emphasize the detailed mathematical formulation of the problem. The book will enable readers themselves to set up a computational program to investigate specific topics of interest in thin film deposition. It will benefit those working in any discipline that requires an understanding of thin film growth processes.

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners. This book, first published in 2001, focuses on the interactions between different mechanisms of microstructure evolution and film-growth conditions.

A wide variety of materials systems and deposition strategies have been developed to produce epitaxial and polycrystalline thin films. In particular, controlling the morphology and microstructure of metal films at the nanometer and/or micron scale has become crucial for applications such as giant magnetoresistive devices, contacts and diffusion barriers in integrated circuits and photovoltaics, and multilayer X-ray mirrors. This book, first published in 2001, focuses on the interactions between different mechanisms of microstructure evolution and film-growth conditions. Two sections of the volume, including a joint effort with Symposium R, Morphology and Dynamics of Crystal Surfaces in Molecular and Colloid Systems, highlight the fundamental mechanisms of epitaxial growth. Additional topics include: multilayers - stress in thin films; early stages of film growth - mechanical properties; texture in polycrystalline films; grain growth - barrier layers; and silicides and organic thin films - pulsed laser deposition.

A significant portion of these papers from a winter 2000 symposium examine materials and devices at the nano-scale, with work on self- organized structures as well as nano-patterned thin-film structures. Materials research in three-, two-, one-, and zero-dimensional objects is addressed. Other major themes include pattern formation on surfaces, magnetism in films, thin film nucleation and alloy formation, and diffusion and morphological evolution of surfaces and thin films. Quantum dots and quantum size effects, metal/silicon and germanium/silicon epitaxy, metal on semiconductor and semiconductor thin films, and semiconductor epitaxy are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

"The papers compiled in this volume were presented in Symposium W, 'Morphological and Compositional Evolution of Thin Films, ' held December 2-5 at the 2002 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston Massachusetts. They are organized in the order that they were presented."--P. xiii.