Ordering mechanisms in epitaxial SiGe nanoislands

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Vantarakis, G ^a,b   Remediakis, I N ^b   Kelires, P C ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISLAND GROWTH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORDERED CONFIGURATION; ORDERED DOMAINS; ORDERING MECHANISM; SELF-ORGANIZE; SIGE-NANOISLANDS; SURFACE KINETICS;

SILICON ALLOYS;

SURFACE SEGREGATION;

EID: 84860324630     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.176102     Document Type: Article

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