Competing step instabilities at surfaces under stress

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 72-74

  Léonard, François ^a   Tersoff, J ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SHIFT;

HETEROEPITAXIAL GROWTH;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0042842377     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1591060     Document Type: Article

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