Description: I. Surface Diffusion at Equilibrium.- Quasielastic Helium Scattering Studies of Surface Diffusion: The Diffusion Barrier.- Experimental Aspects of Metal Particle Diffusion on a Silicon Surface.- Surface Dynamics of Stepped Si(001) Studied by Temporal LEED Spectroscopy.- Electric Current Induced Asymmetry of Surface Diffusion--Instability of Vicinal Crystal Surfaces.- Memory Effects and Memory Functions in Surface Diffusion.- Driven Diffusion in a Model of the O/W(110) System.- Surface Diffusion and Real-Space Renormalization Group.- Surface Diffusion Near Phase Transitions.- II. Surface Diffusion from Profile Evolution Methods.- Surface Heterodiffusion in Adsorbed and Coadsorbed Overlayers of Li, Sr, and Cu on the W and Mo (112) Surfaces.- Metal Heterodiffusion on Metallic Surfaces: Case of Pb on Cu.- Step Effects on Surface Diffusion: A Comprehensive Study of CO on Pt(111).- Adsorption, Desorption, and Diffusion of Potassium on Metal and Oxide Surfaces.- III. Surface Diffusion Under Non-equilibrium Conditions.- Dynamics of Interacting Adparticles Under Non-Equilibrium Conditions.- Statistical-Mechanical Description of Nonequilibrium Processes in Interacting Lattice Gases.- Model Studies of Collective Diffusion.- Study of Non-Equilibrium Surface Diffusion From an Initial Step-Concentration Profile With a New Probability-Based Continuum Method.- IV. Diffusion Mechanisms in Growth Processes.- Diffusion on and IN Surfaces: The Atomic Slide Puzzle.- Decay of Two-Dimensional Islands on Ag(110).- Surface Morphology and dynamics: Using Ab-initio Total Energies to make the Most of the STM Data.- Substrate-Mediated Interaction on Ag(111) Surfaces From First Principles.- Diffusion of Adatoms and Small Clusters on Missing-Row-Reconstructed Surfaces.- Effects of Adsorbates onSubmonolayer Growth.- Surfactants in Semiconductor Heteroepitaxy: Thermodynamics and/or kinetics?.- V. Substrate Effects and Surface Diffusion.- Nonlinear Diffusion and Sliding Friction.- Selective Activation Dynamics: A Minimal Path Approach.- Long Jumps in Surface Diffusion Investigated by Stochastic Equations.- Analytical Kinetic Theory of Single-Particle and Collective Surface Diffusion.- Adatom Island Diffusion on Metal FCC(100) Surfaces.- Paths, Barriers, and Prefactors for Adatom Descent from Ag Clusters on Ag(111).- Correlated Diffusion of Adatoms and Islands on the Low Indexed Surfaces of Noble Metals and Alloys.- Author Index.

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