1. Epitaxial growth of single-layer graphene sheets

Model for computing kinetics of the graphene edge epitaxial growth on copper , Physical Review E 93, 062806 (2016);     ArXiv

2. Dynamics of monoatomic crystal steps

Step growth and meandering in a precursor-mediated epitaxy with anisotropic attachment kinetics and terrace diffusion, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena 10(4), 97-110 (2015);      ArXiv

Long-wave model for strongly anisotropic growth of a crystal step, Physical Review E 88, 022402 (2013).

3. Dewetting of Solid Films/Morphological Evolution of Crystal Surfaces

Kinetics of nanorings formation on surfaces of stressed thin films, with Lin Du and Dimitrios Maroudas, Physical  Review Materials 2, 083403 (2018)  (Lin and Dimitrios take most credit for this insightful work)

Modeling solid-state dewetting of a single-crystal binary alloy thin films, Journal of Applied Physics 123, 034302 (2018)       ArXiv

Height transitions, shape evolution, and coarsening of equilibrating quantum nanoislands, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 25, 085003 (2017)       ArXiv

Interplay of quantum size effect, anisotropy and surface stress shapes the instability of thin metal films, Journal of Engineering Mathematics 104(1), 77-92 (2017)       ArXiv

Mathematical modeling of a surface morphological instability of a thin monocrystal film in a strong electric field, with Aaron Wingo, Selahittin Cinar, and Kurt Woods,  Involve, a Journal of Mathematics 9-4 (2016), 623-638

Electromigration-driven evolution of the surface morphology and composition for a bi-component solid film, with Mahdi Bandegi, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena 10(4), 83-96 (2015);     ArXiv

Analysis of a combined influence of substrate wetting and surface electromigration on a thin film stability and dynamical morphologies, Comptes Rendus Physique 14, 607-618 (2013).

Stability of a strongly anisotropic thin epitaxial film in a wetting interaction with elastic substrate, with Wondimu Tekalign and Margo Levine, Eur. Phys. Lett. 93,  26001 (2011).

A tangent-plane, marker-particle method for the computation of three-dimensional solid surfaces evolving by surface diffusion on a substrate, with P. Du and Harris Wong
Journal of Computational Physics 229(3), p. 813-827 (2010; due to copyright restrictions, fulltext is available on request only).

Dewetting of an ultrathin solid film on a lattice-matched or amorphous substrate, Phys. Rev. B 77, 165414 (2008)

Morphologies and kinetics of a dewetting ultrathin solid film, Phys. Rev. B 77, 245445 (2008)

Comparative study of a solid film dewetting in an attractive substrate potentials with the exponential and the algebraic decay,
Math. Model. Nat. Phenom. 3(5), 16-29 (2008).  Journal web site

Temperature of Spatially Modulated Surface of Solid Film Heated by Repetitive Laser Pulses  , with V.K. Henner
Journal of Physics D: Appl. Phys. 38 (2005) 4196-4201

Influence of Pulsed Laser Heating on Morphological Relaxation of Surface Ripple   
Physical Review E  72 (2005) 011604                ( MRS Fall'05 Meeting paper )

Tailoring of Crystal Surface Morphology by Induced Spatio-Temporal Oscillations of Temperature   
Physical Review E  75 (2007) 021605                ( MRS Fall'06 Meeting paper )

Numerical Simulation of Liquid Phase Electro-Epitaxial Selective Area Growth  , with R.J. Braun
Journal of  Crystal Growth 279 (2005) 213-228; due to copyright restrictions, fulltext is available on request only       
 

Motion of Contact Line of a Crystal Over the Edge of Solid Mask in Epitaxial lateral Overgrowth      
Computational Materials Science 32 (2005) 203-216due to copyright restrictions, fulltext is available on request only     

Computation of the Material Indicator Function Near the Contact Line (in Tryggvason's method)     
Journal of Computational Physics 200(1) (2004) 1-7
due to copyright restrictions, fulltext is available on request only     

Enhancement of Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth by Vapor-Phase Diffusion   
International Journal of Engineering Science 42 (2004) 1439-1457; 
due to copyright restrictions, fulltext is available on request only  

A Model for Anisotropic Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth , with R.J. Braun and M.G. Mauk,
Journal of  Crystal Growth 241 (2002) 330-346; due to copyright restrictions, fulltext is available on request only     

A Model for Isotropic Crystal Growth from Vapor on a Patterned Substrate  , with R.J. Braun and M.G. Mauk,
Journal of  Crystal Growth 235 (2002) 425-438; due to copyright restrictions, fulltext is available on request only