Numerical simulations of island formation in a coherent strained epitaxial thin film system

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2273-2297

  Zhang, Y W ^a   Bower, A F ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; STRAIN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

LATTICE MISMATCH;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0343494921     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(99)00026-5     Document Type: Article

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