Creation of 'quantum platelets' via strain-controlled self-organization at steps

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5380-5383

  Li, Adam ^a   Liu, Feng ^a,b   Petrovykh, D Y ^a   Lin, J L ^a   Viernow, J ^a   Himpsel, F J ^a   Lagally, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MORPHOLOGY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TEMPERATURE;

HETEROEPITAXIAL GROWTH; QUANTUM PLATELETS; SELF ORGANIZED GROWTH;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 18744434515     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5380     Document Type: Article

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