One-dimensional ordering of Ge nanoclusters along atomically straight steps of Si(111)

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Sekiguchi, Takeharu ^a   Yoshida, Shunji ^b   Itoh, Kohei M ^b   Mysliveček, Josef ^c   Voigtländer, Bert ^c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRONIC STATES; NANOCLUSTERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33846094464     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2426890     Document Type: Article

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