Self-organized growth of alloy superlattices

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6721, 1999, Pages 678-681

  Venezuela, P ^a   Tersoff, J ^b   Floro, J A ^c   Chason, E ^c,d   Follstaedt, D M ^c   Liu, Feng ^a   Lagally, M G ^a  

^a Dept of Mat Sci and Engineering University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; SILICON ALLOYS; STRAIN; SURFACES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SILICON GERMANIUM ALLOYS; SURFACE STEP SITES;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

ALLOY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0033602210     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17767     Document Type: Article

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