Effect of elastic anisotropy on the elastic fields and vertical alignment of quantum dots

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1487-1492

  Pei, Q X ^a   Lu, C ^a   Wang, Y Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PHASE DIAGRAMS; STRAIN; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

ELASTIC ANISOTROPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0037320185     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1535730     Document Type: Article

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