The Atomistic Nature of Crystal Growth
By: by Boyan Mutaftschiev
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science -- 43; Springer Series in Materials Science -- 43
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9783642085772; 9783662045916
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics); Crystallography; Physics
Description: Crystal growth and nucleation are treated in the specialized literature in different ways depending on the discipline in question (physics, physical chemistry, chemical engineering) and on the theoretical approaches (atomistic vs continuum approach as regards crystal growth, phase vs chemical concept as regards nucleation). This book relates the different approaches to one another, giving preference to atomistic treatments by the methods of statistical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. This unified approach also facilitates an understanding of some related phenomena of surface physics, such as adsorption, wetting etc. The book allows research novices and graduate students to get an insight into the physics of the phenomena and to interpret some of the experimental results.
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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Thermodynamics; title: 3. Statistical Thermodynamics; title: 4. Equilibrium Between Large Phases; The Vapor Pressure of Solids; title: 5. Surface Tension of Crystals; title: 6. Equilibrium Between Large 3- and 2-Dimensional Phases; title: 7. Thin Films, Surface Roughening, Surface Alloys; title: 8. Equilibrium Between a Small and a Large Phase; title: 9. Equilibrium Shapes of Crystals; title: 10. Homogeneous Nucleation; the Phase Approach; title: 11. Homogeneous Nucleation; the Chemical Approach; title: 12. Nucleation on a Foreign Substrate; title: 13. Some Specific Cases of Nucleation; title: 14. Time-Dependent Nucleation Kinetics; title: 15. Elementary Processes on the Surface of a Crystal; title: 16. Growth of "Perfect" K Face; title: 17. Growth of an F Face of a Perfect Crystal; title: 18. Growth of an F Face of an Imperfect Crystal; title: 19. Conclusion; title: Appendices.-.