Key role of the wetting layer in revealing the hidden path of Ge/Si(001) Stranski-Krastanow growth onset

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Brehm, Moritz ^a   Montalenti, Francesco ^b   Grydlik, Martyna ^a   Vastola, Guglielmo ^b   Lichtenberger, Herbert ^a   Hrauda, Nina ^a   Beck, Matthew J ^c   Fromherz, Thomas ^a   Schäffler, Friedrich ^a   Miglio, Leo ^b   Bauer, Günther ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77953557132     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205321     Document Type: Article

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