Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Abstract
The key ideas presented in the classic paper ‘The growth of crystals and the equilibrium structure of their surfaces’ by W. K. Burton, N. Cabrera and F. C. Frank, published in
Philosophical Transactions A
in 1951, are summarized and put in the context of both the state of knowledge at the time of publication and the considerable amount of work since that time that has built on and developed these ideas. Many of these developments exploit the huge increase in the capabilities of computer modelling that complement the original analytic approach of the paper. The dearth of relevant experimental data at the time of the original publication has been transformed by the application of increasingly sophisticated modern methods of surface science. This commentary was written to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the journal
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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