This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, and engineering, with length scales ranging from Ångstroms up to millimeters. The emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications. Each book focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading experts to give an up-to-date discussion of their work and the work of others. Each article contains enough references that the interested reader can access the relevant literature. Thanks are given to the Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University for supporting this series. M. F. Thorpe, Series Editor E-mail: thorpe@pa. msu. edu v PREFACE th th During the period 4 -8 August 1996, a conference with the same title as this book was held in Traverse City, Michigan. That conference was organized as a sequel to an interesting and successful WEM workshop in a similar area run by Profs. Hans Bonzel and Bill Mullins in May 1995. This book contains papers presented at the Traverse City conference. The book focuses on: atomic processes, step structure and dynamics; and their effect on surface and interface structures and on the relaxation kinetics of larger leng- scale nonequilibrium morphologies.

Zusammenfassung
Proceedings of a workshop held in Traverse City, Michigan, August 4-8, 1996

Inhalt
From Atomic Diffusion to Step Dynamics.- Atomic Steps in the Decay of 1- and 2- Dimensional Gratings.- Morphologies of Periodic Surface Profiles and Small Particles: A Source of Step and Step Interaction Energies.- Anisotropy of Wetting of PB Crystals By Their Own Melt and By Liquid GA-PB Alloys.- Relaxation of Nanometer-Scale Surface Morphology.- Smoothing of a Grooved Singular Surface Whose Neighboring Orientations are Unstable.- Step Fluctuations: From Equilibrium Analysis to Step Unbunching and Cluster Diffusion in a Unified Picture.- Kinetic Rate Law Issues in the Morphological Relaxation of Rippled Crystal Surfaces.- Grain Boundary Motion in Aluminium Bicrystals.- An Instability Analysis of Heteroepitaxial Interfaces Via a Discrete Atom Method.- Ab Initio Simulations of the Si (100) Surface: Steps and Melting.- Relaxation of Surface Steps Towards Equilibrium.- Coarsening of MBE Structures in 2+1 Dimensions.- Flattenning of Grooves: From Step Dynamics to Continuum Theory.- Nucleation and Growth in Elastodynamics.- Two-Dimensional Models for Step Dynamics.- Networks of Steps on Au and Pt Crystals.- Coupled Chemical and Faceting Surface Phase Transitions.