Competing Roughening Mechanisms in Strained Heteroepitaxy: A Fast Kinetic Monte Carlo Study

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 21, 2002, Pages

  Lam, Chi Hang ^a,b   Lee, Chun Kin ^a   Sander, Leonard M ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

STRAINED HETEROEPITAXY;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 0037132188     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.216102     Document Type: Article

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