We consider the diffusion of markers in a layered medium, with the lateral diffusion coefficient being the function of hight. We show that the probability density of the lateral displacements follows a one-dimensional Batchelor’s equation with time-dependent diffusion coefficient governed by...

We study a variety of aspects of a bilayer system of Ising spins including accurate estimates of the critical temperature for ferromagnetic interactions, scaling of the critical temperature when the interlayer interaction goes to zero, and approximations of phase diagrams for the case when...

After a brief presentation of the classical laws of wetting, we review different phenomenological descriptions of rough wetting, i.e., show how these classical laws must be modified on rough solids. This introduces the questions of hemi-wicking (can a film propagate inside the texture of a...

The thermoelectric power (Seebeck coefficient S) was measured for several preannealed CdIn2Se4 thin films of different thicknesses. The thermoelectric power measurements indicate that the preannealed CdIn2Se4 thin films are n-type semiconductors. The thermoelectric was utilized to calculate the...

The spreading of a small mercury droplet (150μm) on thin gold films is studied, using an optical microscope enhanced with a differential interference contrast system. The growing interfaces are analyzed in order to determine the roughness (α) and growth (β) exponents. For gold film thickness...

The behavior of the polarization in a microscopic statistical model for a thin film relaxor placed between two metallic electrodes is studied by numerical simulations. Depolarization fields different from zero, due to a non-perfect compensation of surface charges at the metallic electrodes, are...

The original versions of the limited-mobility growth models of Das Sarma and Tamborenea (DT) and of Wolf and Villain (WV) were simulated in one-dimensional substrates of lengths L⩽256 and ⩽512, respectively. The growth regime may be separated in two regions, giving effective growth exponents...

TiO2 nanoparticles were synthesised by a PS-b-PEO block copolymer templated sol–gel process within a thin polymer film. The resulting nanoparticles proved to be well defined with a surface coverage depending on the sol–gel content during synthesis. Surface force microscopy as well as...

Considering some deposition models with limited mobility, we show that the typical decay of the interface width to its saturation value is exponential, which defines the crossover or saturation time τ. We present a method to calculate a characteristic time τ0 proportional to τ and estimate...

We have studied the critical current density Jc in high quality c-axis oriented YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films. To determine Jc as a function of temperature, magnetic field, we have realized the systematical measure of the J-E characteristic in large range of temperature with an increment of 0.2K for...