This book in the field of nanoscience and technology discusses an important and new technique to form nanodevices by self-organized processes. It appeals to reseachers, advanced students and engineers.

Will be the first Springer book in the field of formation of nanodevices by self-organized growth Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Growth and Characterization Techniques.- 3. Self-Organization Phenomena at Crystal Surfaces.- 4. Engineering of Complex Nanostructures: Working Together with Nature.- 5. Devices Based on Epitaxial Nanostructures.- 6. Conclusion.- A. Energy of a Strained Disk with Perturbed Shape.- A.1 Energy of the Disk Boundary.- A.2 Elastic Relaxation Energy of the Disk.- A.3 Evaluation of Integrals.- A.4 Stiffness of the Disk against Shape Perturbations.- B. Elastic Interaction of Two Strained Disks.- C. Stiffness of a Hexagonal Array of Interacting Strained Disks.- References.