NONPLANAR STEP AND TERRACE CONFIGURATED SURFACES AS TEMPLATES FOR CRYSTAL-GROWTH DYNAMICS STUDIES

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作者
COLAS, E [1 ]
NIHOUS, GC [1 ]
HWANG, DM [1 ]
机构
[1] PICHTR,HONOLULU,HI 96813
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JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A-VACUUM SURFACES AND FILMS | 1992年 / 10卷 / 04期
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10.1116/1.577711
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TB3 [工程材料学];
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0805 ; 080502 ;
摘要
A model is developed for predicting morphologies resulting from crystal growth on nonplanar surfaces with step and terrace configurations engineered prior to growth. Novel aspects of crystal growth dynamics are revealed by the interplay between diffusion across terraces and over convex corners, which leads to multiple step formation and unique morphologies on (100) and vicinal (100) surfaces. These effects are utilized to generate a variety of quantum wire structure arrays.
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页码:691 / 696
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