Strain relaxation in III-V semiconductor heterostructures

Micron

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-64

  Goodhew, P J ^a   Giannakopoulos, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

InGaAs GaAs system; Semiconductors; Strain relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033021317     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-4328(98)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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