Metastability of ultradense arrays of quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Shchukin, V A ^a,c   Bimberg, D ^a   Munt, T P ^b   Jesson, D E ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; REACTION KINETICS; SELF ASSEMBLY; VECTORS;

METASTABILITY; OSTWALD RIPENING; ULTRADENSE ARRAYS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0037458415     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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