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We present models of surfaces of crystals in an environment where molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and related methods of crystal growth like atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) can be performed. Besides detailed models of reconstructed (001) surfaces…
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Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is a technique in which short-pulse electron beams can probe the femtosecond-scale evolution of atomic structure in matter driven far from equilibrium. As an accelerator physics challenge, UED imposes…
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We use a multiscale approach to study a lattice-gas model of submonolayer growth of Fe/Mo(110) by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. To begin with, we construct a two-dimensional lattice-gas model of the Fe/Mo(110) system based on first-principles…
MoTe2 is the least explored material in the Molybdenum-chalcogen family, which crystallizes in thermodynamically stable semiconducting 2H phase at \textless 500 C and 1T' metallic phase at higher temperatures. Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)…
Jin (Phys. Fluids, vol. 31, 2019, p. 125102) proposed a new turbulence simulation method which shows better performance than other classic turbulence models. It is composed of a small-eddy-dissipation mixing length (SED-ML) model for…
A solid-on-solid model of epitaxial growth in 1+1 dimensions is investigated in which slope dependent upward and downward particle currents compete on the surface. The microscopic mechanisms which give rise to these currents are the…
Immense interests in thin-film fabrication for industrial applications have driven both theoretical and computational aspects of modeling its growth with an aim to design and control film's surface morphology. Oftentimes, smooth surface is…
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Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) is a well-established technique for removing epithelial lesions. Predicting dissection trajectories in ESD videos offers significant potential for enhancing surgical skill training and simplifying the…
In this work, a study of epitaxial growth was carried out by means of wavelets formalism. We showed the existence of a dynamic scaling form in wavelet discriminated linear MBE equation where diffusion and noise are the dominant effects. We…
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A constructive approach to theory of diffusion processes is proposed, which is based on application of both the symmetry analysis and method of modelling functions. An algorithm for construction of the modelling functions is suggested. This…
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The growth of wafer-scale van der Waals (vdW) thin films and heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is important for future applications in quantum technologies, next generation optoelectronic devices, and fundamental physics…
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