Aspect-ratio-dependent driving force for nonuniform alloying in Stranski-Krastanow islands

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Digiuni, D ^a   Gatti, R ^a   Montalenti, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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EID: 72449175399     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155436     Document Type: Article

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