Kinetic evolution and equilibrium morphology of strained islands

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Rastelli, A ^a   Stoffel, M ^a   Tersoff, J ^b   Kar, G S ^a   Schmidt, O G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGE ISLANDS; STRAINED ISLANDS; TRUNCATED PYRAMIDS;

SILICON COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 27144546641     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.026103     Document Type: Article

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