Ultra-steep side facets in multi-faceted sige/si(001) stranski-krastanow islands

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Brehm, Moritz ^a   Lichtenberger, Herbert ^b   Fromherz, Thomas ^b   Springholz, Gunther ^b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUPOLAS; DOMES; FARM BUILDINGS;

DEVICE APPLICATION; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HIGH GROWTH TEMPERATURES; ISLAND FORMATION; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; SURFACE AREA ANALYSIS; DOME ISLANDS; GROWTH EVOLUTION; ISLAND SHAPE; SIGE/SI;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84255191245     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-70     Document Type: Article

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