RT Journal Article
T1 Universal non-equilibrium phenomena at submicrometric surfaces and interfaces
A1 Cuerno, Rodolfo
A1 Cañadas Castro, Mario
A1 Muñoz-García, Javier
A1 Gago, Raúl
A1 Vázquez Burgos, Luis
AB The recent widespread interest in processes occurring at micro and nanometric scales has increased the physical relevance of the surfaces and interfaces constituting system boundaries, both at and far from equilibrium. In the latter case, universal properties occur, such as scale invariance (surface kinetic roughening), surface pattern formation or domain coarsening. However, descriptions of these systems feature limited predictive power when based merely on universality principles. We review examples from Materials Science at nano and submicrometric scales, that underlie the importance of describing growing surfaces by means of (phenomenological) constitutive laws, in order to correctly describe the rich behaviors experimentally found across many different systems. Additionally, this approach provides new generic models that are also of interest in the wider contexts of Pattern Formation and Non-Linear Science.
PB EDP Sciences
PB Springer
SN 1951-6355 (Print)
SN 1951-6401 (Online)
YR 2007
FD 2007-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6868
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6868
LA eng
NO 15 pages, 8 figures.
NO This contribution is dedicated to the lasting memory of the late Carlos Pérez García.
NO Our work has been partially supported by MECD (Spain), through Grants Nos. FIS2006-12253-C06-01, FIS2006-12253-C06-02, FIS2006-12253-C06-03,FIS2006-12253-C06-06, and by the Ramón y Cajal programme (R. G.).
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