Modeling of Crystalline Interfaces and Thin Film Structures:
A Joint Mathematics-Physics Symposium
MOTIVATION:
The analysis of crystalline interfaces, such as thin films and grain boundaries, is crucial for the design, development, and application of various modern materials. During the epitaxial growth of thin films and the self-assembly of crystalline nanostructures, multi-scale phenomena take place and the microscopic morphology strongly impacts the material macroscopic properties. Any progress in the modeling of interface-pattern formations carries the potential for a significant technological impact.
AIM:
The workshop aims at presenting the state of the art and the most recent advancements in the derivation, validation, and implementation of reliable models for the characterization of interface crystalline morphologies. New results will be presented both at the analytical and at the experimental level. On the one hand interface morphologies will be analytically characterized as minimizers of configurational energies in the framework of the Calculus of Variations or as solutions of evolutionary PDEs. On the other hand solutions and challenges encountered in experiments when growing supported nanostructures for example by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) will be presented. Topics that will be addressed include:
- Derivation of models for crystalline interfaces.
- Crystal-interface regularity and geometric properties.
- Thin-film growth and evolution of crystal interfaces.
- Growth challenges in experiments and applications to technology.
ORGANIZERS:
Ulrike Diebold, Irene Fonseca, and Paolo Piovano
SPEAKERS:
- Roberto Alicandro
- Peter Bella
- Giovanni Bellettini
- Andrea Braides
- Antonin Chambolle
- Marco Cicalese
- Gianni Dal Maso
- Patrick Dondl
- James Evans
- Matteo Focardi
- Maria Stella Gelli
- Michael Goldman
- Giuliano Lazzaroni
- Giovanni Leoni
- Jian-Guo Liu
- Tevfik Onur Mentes
- Marco Morandotti
- Massimiliano Morini
- Cyrill Muratov
- Matteo Novaga
- Mariapia Palombaro
- Aldo Pratelli
- Guus Rijnders
- Michele Riva
- Bernd Schmidt
- Tomas Sikola
- David J. Srolovitz
- Christian Teichert
- Igor Velcic
- Barbara Zwicknagl
REGISTRATION:
In case of interest in participating, please register by sending an email to paolo.piovano@univie.ac.at specifying name, affiliation, and mail address (by October 28th).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The workshop is hosted and supported by the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI), a programme-oriented research institute for mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. Partial support is acknowledged from WWTF through MoDeNa project (grant MA16-005) and from FWF through OSCI project (grant P29681).
