Achievements

[2024]

1. P. Strak, W. Miller, S. Krukowski, Charge-Controlled Energy Optimization of the Reconstruction of Semiconductor Surfaces: sp3–sp2 Transformation of Stoichiometric GaN(0001) Surface to (4×4) Pattern. Materials 17 (2024) 2614.
   https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17112614

2. Noriko Akutsu, “Faceted-Rough Surface in the Non-Equilibrium Steady State Near Equilibrium,” Journal of Crystal Growth, 631 (2024) 127610, 1–6.

[2023]

1. Kleshtanova, V., Ivanov, V. V., Hodzhaoglu, F., Prieto, J. E., & Tonchev, V. (2023). Heterogeneous Substrates Modify Non-Classical Nucleation Pathways: Reanalysis of Kinetic Data from the Electrodeposition of Mercury on Platinum Using Hierarchy of Sigmoid Growth Models. Crystals, 13(12), 1690.
   DOI: 10.3390/cryst13121690

2. Noriko Akutsu, “Faceted-Rough Surface between Thermodynamically Rough and Atomically Rough Surfaces” Conference Proceedings, AIP Conf. Proc. 2872, 090002 (2023), 1–8.

3. Noriko Akutsu, “Kardar–Parisi–Zhang Roughening Associated with Nucleation-Limited Steady Crystal Growth,” Scientific Reports, 13, 16086 (2023).
   DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43002-3

4. Hristina Popova, Analyzing the Pattern Formation on Vicinal Surfaces in Diffusion-Limited and Kinetics-Limited Growth Regimes: The Effect of Step−Step Exclusion, Cryst. Growth Des. 23, 8875-8888, 2023. 
   DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00952

5. Marta Anna Chabowska, Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur, Diffusion-Dependent Pattern Formation on Crystal Surfaces, ACS Omega, 8, 45779-45786, 2023. 
   DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c06377

6. V. V. Ivanov, C. Tielemann, K. Avramova, S. Reinsch, V. Tonchev, Modelling crystallization: When the normal growth velocity depends on the supersaturation, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 181, 111542, 2023.
   DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2023.111542

[2023]

• Noriko Akutsu, “Faceted Rough Surface Leads to Low Stacking Fault Nucleation-Limited Crystal Growth”　(poster), 14th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, (ICNS-14), (Fukuoka, Japan, November 12–17, 2023).

• Noriko Akutsu, “Crossover between BKT and KPZ rough surfaces for interface-limited growth in three dimensions” (poster), 28th International Conference on Statistical Physics, (Statphys28), (The University of Tokyo, Hongo campus, Tokyo, Japan, August 7th–11th, 2023).

• Noriko Akutsu, Yasuhiro Akutsu, “Faceting Diagram for Macrosteps at Equilibrium: Tensor Network Calculations” (poster) 20th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy, (ICCGE-20), (Naples, Italy, Complesso Universitario di San Giovanni a Teduccio July 30–August 4, 2023). 

• Noriko Akutsu, “Faceted-Rough Surface in the Non-Equilibrium Steady State Near Equilibrium”, 20th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy, (ICCGE-20), (Naples, Italy, Complesso Universitario di San Giovanni a Teduccio July 30–August 4, 2023).

• Pawel Strak, Ashfaq Ahmad, Karol Kawka, Pawel Kempisty, Investigation of AlGaN(0001) properties through DFT calculations, The 14th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-14) TuP-CH-LN1, November 12-17, 2023.

• Hristina Popova, Magdalena Załuska-Kotur and Vesselin Tonchev, Step bunching on vicinal surfaces: numerical simulations of a cellular automata model, 2ND SYMPOSIUM On Challenges in Chemical and Biochemical Technologies and Environmental Protection & 18TH WORKSHOP on Transport Phenomena in Two-Phase Flow, Sandanski, Bulgaria, September 10 - 13, 2023. 

• M.Chabowska, H. Popova, V. Tonchev, M. Załuska – Kotur, Modeling and characterization of surface patterns formed on the surface of a growing crystal, 36th European Conference on Surface Science, Lodz. Poland, 28 Aug - 1 Sep 2023.

Under construction

• December 19, 2023, Online

• August 29, 2023, Sofia, Bulgaria

• August 26, 2023, Warsaw, Poland