Quantitative model of heterogeneous nucleation and growth of sige quantum dot molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hu, Hao ^a,b   Gao, Hongjun ^b   Liu, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MODEL; CRITICAL SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ISLAND GROWTH; ISLAND NUCLEATION; ISLAND SIZE; ISOLATED STRAINS; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; QUANTUM DOT MOLECULES; SELF-LIMITING EFFECT; THEORETICAL MODELS; UPPER BOUND;

CALCULATIONS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; NUCLEATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84866102400     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.106103     Document Type: Article

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