Self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots with nearly uniform sizes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Alchalabi, K ^a   Zimin, D ^a   Kostorz, G ^a   Zogg, H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NUCLEATION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SUBSTRATES; TEMPERATURE;

NONOVERLAPPING DIFFUSION RADII; QUASISUBSTRATES; SELF ASSEMBLED LEAD SELENIUM QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 20244386942     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. D. Leonard, K. Pond, and P.M. Petroff, Phys. Rev. B 50, 11687 (1994).
2. G. Medeiros-Ribeiro et al., Science 279, 353 (1998).
3. H. Saito, K. Nishi, and S. Sugou, Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 1224 (1999).
4. M. Pinczolits, G. Springholz, and G. Bauer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 250 (1998).
5. G. Springholz, V. Holy, M. Pinczolits, and G. Bauer, Science 282, 734 (1998).
6. G. Springholz, Z. Shi, and H. Zogg, in Thin Films: Heteroepitaxial Systems, edited by W. K. Liu and M. B. Santos (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999), pp. 621-688.
7. S. Blunier et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 3599 (1992).
8. H. Zogg et al., Phys. Rev. B 50, 10 801 (1994).
9. P. Müller et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3007 (1997).
10. C. Maissen et al., Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 263, 415 (1992).
11. R. Kern, G. Le Lay, and J. J. Metois, in Current Topics in Materials Science, edited by E. Kaldis (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979), Vol. 3, pp. 131-420.
12. S. Stoyanov, in Current Topics in Materials Science, edited by E. Kaldis (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979), Vol. 3, pp. 423-462.
13. S. Stoyanov, J. Cryst. Growth 24/25, 293 (1974).
14. V. A. Shchuskin and D. Bimberg, Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 1125 (1999).
15. d surface diffusion energy of 0.3 eV.
16. Since the sample temperature is changed after growth completion of the PbTe quasisubstrate layer, such steps (which mainly relieve the thermal misfit strain) are already present when starting the PbSe deposition.