Quantum-dot nucleation in strained-layer epitaxy: Minimum-energy pathway in the stress-driven two-dimensional to three-dimensional transformation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 20, 2005, Pages

  Prieto, José Emilio ^a   Markov, Ivan ^b  

^a CENTRO DE MICROANÁLISIS DE MATERIALES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

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EID: 29744452835     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.205412     Document Type: Article

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