Decomposition, diffusion, and growth rate anisotropies in self-limited profiles during metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy of seeded nanostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Pelucchi, E ^a   Dimastrodonato, V ^a   Rudra, A ^b   Leifer, K ^b,d   Kapon, E ^b   Bethke, L ^c   Zestanakis, P A ^c,e   Vvedensky, D D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 79959594743     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.205409     Document Type: Article

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