How kinetics drives the two- to three-dimensional transition in semiconductor strained heterostructures: The case of InAs/GaAs(001)

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Arciprete, F ^a   Placidi, E ^a   Sessi, V ^a   Fanfoni, M ^a   Patella, F ^a   Balzarotti, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REACTION KINETICS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EXPLOSIVE NUCLEATION; SEMICONDUCTOR STRAINED HETEROSTRUCTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSITION; VOLUME MEASUREMENTS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 33746646833     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2234845     Document Type: Article

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