Jin-Feng Jia

TL;DR: In this article, the growth dynamics and morphology displayed can be well controlled through the quantum size effects defined by the island thicknesses and the interplay with the classical forces, and the transition of growth modes from quantum to classical regime and the quantum beating in morphological dynamics are directly identified in real space and quantitatively analyzed.

TL;DR: A magnesium wetting layer was used to modify the surface structure of MgAl2O4 (111) substrate to achieve growth of high-quality ZnO film by radio frequency plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface electronic properties on layered composition-tunable compounds Nb2n+1SinTe4n+2 (n = 1−5) were systematically studied, and it was shown that with the increasing of n, the distance between the chains becomes larger and the 1D electronic state is developed in the compounds with n ≥ 3.

TL;DR: In this article, an approach for determining the "effective" Ehrlich-Schwoebel (ES) step-edge barrier is proposed, an important kinetic constant to control the interlayer mass transport in epitaxial growth of thin films.