Understanding the effects of strain on morphological instabilities of a nanoscale island during heteroepitaxial growth

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Feng, Lu ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Wang, Shibin ^a   Li, Linan ^a   Shen, Min ^a   Wang, Zhiyong ^a   Chen, Zhenfei ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; LATTICE MISMATCH; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ATTACHMENT-DETACHMENT; CONTINUUM ELASTICITY THEORY; EHRLICH-SCHWOEBEL BARRIER; KINETIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL INSTABILITY; MORPHOLOGICAL STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC MECHANISM;

KINETICS;

EID: 84937232528     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4926421     Document Type: Article

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