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Crystal growth and elasticity

Materials Science 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review some elasticity effects in epitaxial growth. We start by a description of the main ingredients needed to describe elasticity effects (elastic interactions, surface stress, bulk and surface elasticity, thermodynamics of stressed solids). Then we describe how bulk and surface elasticity affect growth mode and surface morphology by means of stress-driven instability. At last stress-strain evolution during crystal growth is reported.

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@article{arxiv.0712.3706,
  title  = {Crystal growth and elasticity},
  author = {P. Muller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3706},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages

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