Elastic constants and critical thicknesses of ScGaN and ScAlN

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, S ^a   Fu, W Y ^a   Holec, D ^b   Humphreys, C J ^a   Moram, M A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALN; CRITICAL THICKNESS; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; IONICITIES; LATTICE-MATCHED; STRESS-STRAIN APPROACHES; U VALUES;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84891716008     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4848036     Document Type: Article

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