Island, pit, and groove formation in strained heteroepitaxy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Lung, M T ^a   Lam, Chi Hang ^a   Sander, Leonard M ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION METHOD; GROOVE FORMATION; HETEROEPITAXIAL FILMS;

DEPOSITION; ELASTIC MODULI; NUCLEATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 27144519573     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.086102     Document Type: Article

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