Material distribution across the interface of random and ordered island arrays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Kar, G S ^a   Kiravittaya, S ^a   Stoffel, M ^a   Schmidt, O G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; MEAN-FIELD ENERGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CHAINS; TWOFOLD STACKED ISLAND LAYERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUXES; FUNCTIONS; GERMANIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 42749099338     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.246103     Document Type: Article

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