Analytic many-body potential for InAs/GaAs surfaces and nanostructures: Formation energy of InAs quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Hammerschmidt, T ^a   Kratzer, P ^a,b   Scheffler, M ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 44949103105     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.235303     Document Type: Article

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