Control of strain-mediated growth kinetics of self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Meixner, M ^a   Kunert, R ^a   Scholl E ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; GROWTH RATE; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0037626886     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.195301     Document Type: Article

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