Coarsening, mixing, and motion: The complex evolution of epitaxial islands

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Tu, Yuhai ^a   Tersoff, J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FREE ENERGY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPLEX DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EPITAXIAL ISLANDS; HETEROEPITAXY; MISFIT STRAIN;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 33847272584     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.096103     Document Type: Article

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