Morphological evolution of heteroepitaxial islands during Stranski-Krastonov growth

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1733-1744

  Liu, P ^a   Zhang, Y W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Epitaxial islands; Finite elements; Self assembly; Surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ELASTIC ENERGY RELAXATION; EPITAXIAL ISLANDS; SURFACE DIFFUSION; SURFACE ROUGHENING MORPHOLOGY;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 33846556741     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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