Theory of directed nucleation of strained Islands on patterned substrates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Hu, Hao ^a,b   Gao, H J ^a   Liu, Feng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE RELAXATION; SURFACE TENSION;

CRITICAL SIZES; ISLAND NUCLEATIONS; LOWER ENERGY BARRIERS; PATTERNED SUBSTRATES; STRAINED ISLANDS; SURFACE ENERGY ANISOTROPIES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 56849103297     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.216102     Document Type: Article

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