This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per
year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents
cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to
engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, and engineering,
with length scales ranging from Ångstroms up to millimeters. The
emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications. Each book
focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading
experts to give an up-to-date discussion of their work and the work of
others. Each article contains enough references that the interested
reader can access the relevant literature. Thanks are given to the
Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University
for supporting this series. M. F. Thorpe, Series Editor E-mail:
thorpe@pa. msu. edu v PREFACE th th During the period 4 -8 August 1996,
a conference with the same title as this book was held in Traverse City,
Michigan. That conference was organized as a sequel to an interesting
and successful WEM workshop in a similar area run by Profs. Hans Bonzel
and Bill Mullins in May 1995. This book contains papers presented at the
Traverse City conference. The book focuses on: atomic processes, step
structure and dynamics; and their effect on surface and interface
structures and on the relaxation kinetics of larger leng- scale
nonequilibrium morphologies.
