Content. - I. Two-Dimensional Ordering and Structure. - Kinetics of Ordering and Growth in 2-D Systems. - Growth Kinetics of Wetting Layers at Surfaces. - The Effects of Mobile Vacancies and Impurities on the Kinetics of Ordering at Surfaces. - Atomic Beam Scattering Studies of Ordering at Surfaces. - Helium Atom Scattering Studies of Single Uncorrelated and Correlated Defects on Surfaces. - Growth and Ordering of Ag Submonolayers on Ge(111). - Kinetics of Strain-Induced Domain Formation of Surfaces. - Molecular Kinetics of Steps. - Microscopic Aspects of the Initial Stages of Epitaxial Growth: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Si on Si(001). - Surface Kinetics and Growth Morphology: Theoretical Models and Physical Realizations. - Structure and Ordering of Metal Overlayers on Si(111) and Ge(111) Surfaces. - Development of Structural and Electronic Properties in the Growth of Metals on Semiconductors. - II. Epitaxial Growth. - From Thermodynamics to Quantum Wires: A Review of Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction. - Direct Epitaxial Growth of Quantum Structures with Two and Three-Dimensional Carrier Confinement. - Kinetics in Molecular Beam Epitaxy Modulated Beam Studies. - Silicon Molecular Beam Epitaxy. - Si Molecular Beam Epitaxy: A Comparison of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observations with Computer Simulations. - Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Ge Molecular Beam Epitaxy on Si(111) 7 × 7. - Growth Kinetics on Vicinal (001) Surfaces: The Solid-On-Solid Model of Molecular-Beam Epitaxy. - Structure Bifurcations During Surface Growth. - RHEED Intensities and Oscillations During the Growth of Iron on Iron Whiskers. - III. Morphological Evolution in Surfaces and Films. - Ion Scattering Studies of Surface Melting. - The Roughening Transition of Vicinal Surfaces. - Dynamicsof a Crystal Surface Below Its Roughening Transition. - Growth of Rough and Facetted Surfaces. - Growth and Erosion of Thin Solid Films. - Morphology of Crystals Based on Crystallography Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: Applications to Si and GaAs. - Studies of Surface Diffusion and Crystal Growth by SEM and STEM. - Three-Dimensional Clustering on Surface: Overlayers on Si. - Strain Relaxation in Ge/Si(001) Studied Using X-Ray Diffraction. - On the Magnetic Properties of Ultrathin Epitaxial Cobalt Films and Superlattices. - Raman Scattering and Disordered Thin-Film Growth Phenomena. Language: English