Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of strained heteroepitaxial growth with intermixing

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Baskaran, Arvind ^a   Devita, Jason ^b   Smereka, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heteroepitaxy; Intermixing; Kinetic; Monte Carlo; Self assembly; Strained

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT FIELD; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; EFFICIENT METHOD; ELASTIC DISPLACEMENTS; ELASTIC EFFECTS; ELASTIC INTERACTIONS; HETEROEPITAXIAL GROWTH; HETEROEPITAXY; KINETIC MONTE CARLO; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; LONG RANGE EFFECTS; MULTIGRID METHODS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SOLID ON SOLIDS; SPRING MODEL; STACKED QUANTUM DOTS; STRAINED FILMS; UPPER BOUND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MIXING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION DAMAGE; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 76449084307     PISSN: 09351175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00161-009-0118-0     Document Type: Article

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