Self-Limiting Growth of Strained Faceted Islands
- 8 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (23) , 5156-5159
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.5156
Abstract
We consider the growth of facets associated with coherently strained semiconductor islands. Surprisingly, the island growth rate is found to rapidly self-limit, which has important consequences for island size distributions. A new explanation for the elongation of strained faceted islands is proposed as a natural consequence of facet growth kinetics.Keywords
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