This textbook is for graduate students and young scientists, who are looking for an introduction to the physics and physical chemistry of crystal growth and nucleation phenomena.

Basic theoretical explanation of the various methods of crystal growth Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Thermodynamics.- 3. Statistical Thermodynamics.- 4. Equilibrium Between Large Phases; The Vapor Pressure of Solids.- 5. The Surface Tension of Crystals.- 6. Equilibrium Between Large Three- and Two-Dimensional Phases: Adsorption Phenomena.- 7. Thin Films, Surface Roughening, and Surface Alloys.- 8. Equilibrium Between a Small and a Large Phase.- 9. Equilibrium Shapes of Crystals.- 10. Homogeneous Nucleation; the Phase Approach.- 11. Homogeneous Nucleation; the Chemical Approach.- 12. Nucleation on a Foreign Substrate.- 13. Some Specific Cases of Nucleation.- 14. Time-Dependent Nucleation Kinetics.- 15. Elementary Processes on the Surface of a Crystal.- 16. Growth of a Perfect K Face.- 17. Growth of an F Face of a Perfect Crystal.- 18. Growth of an F Face of an Imperfect Crystal.- 19. Conclusion.- Appendices.- A. Legendre Transformations.- B. Method of Lagrange Multipliers.- C. Euler's Theorem.- D. Stirling's Approximation.- E. Maximum Term Approximation.- References.