Abstract
In LPE-grown semiconductor samples the formation of self-assembled nanoscale island chains along the elastically soft directions can be observed. We explain this process of self-organization by a kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of the Stranski-Krastanow growth mode, incorporating in a self-consistent way the anisotropic strain field around the nanoscale islands.
- Received 27 June 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.245307
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