Effects of elastic anisotropy on the self-organized ordering of quantum dot superlattices

Nanotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 752-764

  Quek, S S ^a   Liu, G R ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STRAIN; STRESSES;

ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; QUANTUM DOT SUPERLATTICES; SELF ORGANIZED ORDERING;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0041995279     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/14/7/311     Document Type: Article

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