Formation and evolution of a self-organized hierarchy of Ge nanostructures on Si (111) - (7×7): STM observations and first-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Ma, H F ^a   Qin, Z H ^a   Xu, M C ^a   Shi, D X ^a   Gao, H J ^a   Wang, Sanwu ^b   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 34047271797     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.165403     Document Type: Article

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