Stress-engineered spatially selective self-assembly of strained InAs quantum dots on nonplanar patterned GaAs(001) substrates

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 220-222

  Konkar, A ^a   Madhukar, A ^a   Chen, P ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0000630074     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120691     Document Type: Article

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