Size calibration of strained epitaxial islands due to dipole-monopole interaction

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Tokar, V I ^a   Dreysse H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

heteroepitaxy (theory); irreversible aggregation phenomena (theory); molecular beam epitaxy (theory); thin film deposition (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922601388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2015/02/P02006     Document Type: Article

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