Pimpinelli A., Villain J. Physics of crystal growth

Cambridge University Press 1998, 390 pp.This book tries to offer a reasonably complete description of the physical phenomena which make solid materials grow in a certain way, homogeneous or not, rough or smooth. These phenomena belong to chemistry, quantum physics, mechanics, statistical mechanics.
However, chemistry, mechanics and quantum physics are essentially the same during growth as
they are at equilibrium. The statistical aspects are quite different. For this reason, the authors have insisted on statistical mechanics.