Role of c -screw dislocations on indium segregation in InGaN and InAlN alloys

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Lei, Huaping ^a   Chen, Jun ^b   Ruterana, Pierre ^a  

^a Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Nouveaux Matériaux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALN; ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CORE ENERGY; CORE REGION; DISLOCATION LINES; ENERGETIC STABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INDIUM SEGREGATION; INTERACTION ENERGIES; STILLINGER-WEBER POTENTIALS; WURTZITES;

ATOMS; CERIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INDIUM; INDIUM ALLOYS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); ZINC SULFIDE;

SCREW DISLOCATIONS;

EID: 77951806436     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3394007     Document Type: Article

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