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Epitaxy and Its Importance in Science and Industry. Epitaxial Growth Methods From The Liquid, Solid and Vapor Phases. The Surface Of Solids in Equilibrium in Homo- and Hetro-epitaxial Layers, Including Shapes of Crystals and Surfaces, Growth Modes and Misfit Strain Relaxation. Step Flow Versus Island Growth. Dynamics of The Development of Surface Morphology at Various Growth Regimes. Growth Instabilities. The Effect of Impurities and Surfactants.

Faculty: Materials Science and Engineering
|Undergraduate Studies

Pre-required courses

54215 - Thermodynamics A or 54316 - Advanced Thermodynamics A or 114036 - Statistical and Thermal Physics or 124118 - Principles of Chemistry B or 124414 - Physical Chemistry-chemical Kinetics or 124415 - Physical Chem.-chemical Thermodynamics or 124503 - Physical Chemistry 1b or 124510 - Physical Chemistry or 315003 - Thermodynamics of Materials

• Epitaxy : physical principles and technical implementation - Herman, Marian A.,
• Epitaxy of Semiconductors Introduction to Physical Principles - Pohl, Udo W.
• Materials fundamentals of molecular beam epitaxy - Tsao, Jeffrey Y.