Direct imaging of quantum wires nucleated at diatomic steps

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Molina, S I ^a,b   Varela, M ^a   Sales, D L ^b   Ben, T ^b   Pizarro, J ^c   Galindo, P L ^c   Fuster, D ^d   Gonzalez Y ^d   Gonzalez L ^d   Pennycook, S J ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^c s n   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RESOLUTIONS; EPITAXIAL NANO OBJECTS; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; INTERFACIAL DIATOMIC STEPS; MISFIT STRAINS;

EPITAXIAL LAYERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NANOWIRES; NUCLEATION; STRAIN; STRESS RELAXATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

EID: 34948840547     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2790483     Document Type: Article

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