Dislocation-interaction-based model of strained-layer relaxation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Schwarz, Klaus W ^a   Tu, Yuhai ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; COUPLED RATE EQUATIONS; CRITICAL STRAINS; DISLOCATION DENSITIES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LAYER INTERFACES; LOCAL STRESS; MISFIT DISLOCATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ON TIME; RATE EQUATIONS; RELAXATION CURVES; RELAXATION DYNAMICS; RELAXATION REGIMES; RESIDUAL STRAINS; SATURATION REGIME; SELF-TRAPPING; STRAIN LEVELS; STRAINED LAYERS; TWO-REGIME;

RELAXATION PROCESSES;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70350741040     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3243285     Document Type: Article

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