The processes of new phase formation and growth are of fundamental importance in numerous rapidly developing scientific fields such as modern materials science, micro- and optoelectronics, and environmental science. Crystal Growth for Beginners combines the depth of information in monographs, with the thorough analysis of review papers, and presents the resulting content at a level understandable by beginners in science. The book covers, in practice, all fundamental questions and aspects of nucleation, crystal growth, and epitaxy. This book is a non-eclectic presentation of this interdisciplinary topic in materials science. The third edition brings existing chapters up to date, and includes new chapters on the growth of nanowires by the vapor–liquid–solid mechanism, as well as illustrated short biographical texts about the scientists who introduced the basic ideas and concepts into the fields of nucleation, crystal growth and epitaxy. All formulae and equations are illustrated by examples that are of technological importance. The book presents not only the fundamentals but also the state of the art in the subject. Crystal Growth for Beginners is a valuable reference for both graduate students and researchers in materials science. The reader is required to possess some basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and thermodynamics.

1. Crystal Growth
for Beginners
Fundamentals of
Nucleation, Crystal
Growth and Epitaxy
3rd Edition
by Ivan V Markov
(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

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The idea of growth by 2D nucleation
J. W. Gibbs Work of formation of 3D nucleus

3. G. V. Wulff Equilibrium crystal shape (ECS)
The Wulff construction
ECS of Si

4. R. Kaischew
Wulff – Kaischew theorem
Equilibrium shape of a crystal
on a foreign substrate

5. W. Kossel and I. Stranski - 1927
The half-crystal (kink) position
W. Kossel I. N. Stranski

6. R. KaischewI. N. Stranski
Equilibrium of small crystal with the
ambient phase

7. Max Volmer
Rate of 3D and 2D nucleation
Rate of crystal growth by 2D
nucleation
)exp( 2GV 
Volmer-Weber mode of epitaxial growth

8. Ya. I. Frenkel
Homophase and heterophase
fluctuations
Theory of nucleation
Surface diffusion of atoms
Surface roughness

9. Theory of nucleation rate
Zeldovich factorYa. B. Zeldovich

10. Iwan Stranski L. Krastanov
Growth of Ge
on Si(001)

11. Spiral growth of crystals
F. C. Frank

12. N. Cabrera F. C. Frank
The famous parabolic law of crystal
growth at small supersaturation

13. N. Cabrera F. C. Frank
The structure of crystal
surfaces

14. F. C. Frank J. H. van der Merwe
One-dimensional model of interface between misfitting crystals
Layer-by-layer or
Frank – van der Merwe
mechanism of growth

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