Nanostructure Self-Organization by Controlling Surface and Interface Strain

Modeling and Simulation of Strain-mediated Nanostructure Formation on Surface

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Self-organization and nanostructure formation in chemical vapor deposition.

When thin films are grown on a substrate by chemical vapor deposition, the evolution of the first deposited layers may be described, on mesoscopic scales, by dynamical models of the reaction-diffusion type. For monatomic layers, such models describe the evolution of atomic coverage due to the combined effect of reaction terms representing adsorption-desorption and chemical processes and nonline...

Self-organization of Surface Shapes

A problem in surface modeling and approximation is how to sample a surface into a set of signiicant points. It is desirable that the sampling is done in such a way that best preserves the original shape. A principle is that highly curved area should be sampled densely and vice versa. This paper presents a self-organization method for automated surface sampling in this principle. Given a scale s...

Cellular organization by self-organization

We use the oscillating Min proteins of Escherichia coli as a prototype system to illustrate the current state and potential of modeling protein dynamics in space and time. We demonstrate how a theoretical approach has led to striking new insights into the mechanisms of self-organization in bacterial cells and indicate how these ideas may be applicable to more complex structure formation in euka...

Strain relaxation and self-organization phenomena in heteroepitaxial systems.