Stress assisted diffusion electromigration

The particular evolution phenomena in material systems considered in this chapter include the transition from a nominally flat surface to a wavy surface in a stressed solid, the spontaneous growth of epitaxial islands due to deposition of a material on a substrate with lattice mismatch, stress relaxation by grain boundary diffusion, the role of stress in altering compositional variations in solid solutions, and stress-assisted diffusion in the presence of an electric field or electromigration. 

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