Stress distributions and energetics in the laterally ordered systems of buried pyramidal Ge/Si(001) islands: An atomistic simulation study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Makeev, Maxim ^a   Yu, Wenbin ^a   Madhukar, Anupam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOMETRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 7644232138     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.195301     Document Type: Article

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