Near-equilibrium strain relaxation and misfit dislocation interactions in PbTe on PbSe (001) heteroepitaxy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 5160-5162

  Wiesauer, Karin ^a   Springholz, Gunther ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLAYERS; POISSON RATIO; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STRAIN; SUBSTRATES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ELASTIC ENERGY; STRAIN RELAXATION;

SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0942266902     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1633675     Document Type: Article

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