Epitaxial growth has always been a marriage of convenience between film and substrate. More and more frequently, however, it is impractical to use the same material for both film and substrate because it is not available as large single crystals, it is prohibitively expensive, or its properties are ill-suited for the intended application. To meet these challenges, many strategies have been pursued to achieve highly oriented or single-crystal thin films via epitaxy. Crystalline films have been mechanically bonded to other materials to form composite substrates. Crystals have been cut and rewelded, patterned and regrown, buffer layered and repolished. Each strategy has met with fundamental challenges including lattice mismatch, chemical incompatibility, differences in thermal expansion, and structural dissimilarity. This book, first published in 2000, focuses on developments in novel substrate engineering which enable improved epitaxy. Topics include: biaxially textured substrates for high-Tc-coated conductors; surfaces for oxide epitaxy; wafer bonding and lift off; lattice mismatch engineering; substrate engineering and solid-phase recrystallization and epitaxy.

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The edited volume "Epitaxy" is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of materials science. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in this research area. All chapters are complete in themselves but are united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors in the field of materials science as well as opening new possible research paths for further developments.

This book presents selected papers from the fourth edition of the GraphX conference series, GraphITA 2015. Its content range from fundamentals to applications of graphene and other 2D material such as silicene, BN and MoS2. The newest technological challenges in the field are described in this book, written by worldwide known scientists working with 2D materials.The chapter 'Morphing Graphene-Based Systems for Applications: Perspectives from Simulations' is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.