Nonuniform growth of embedded silicon nanocrystals in an amorphous matrix

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Mattoni, Alessandro ^a   Colombo, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; METASTABLE PHASES; NANOCRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

AMORPHOUS MATRIX; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; EMBEDDED SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; NONUNIFORM GROWTH;

CRYSTAL GROWTH;

EID: 36148967706     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.205501     Document Type: Article

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