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Title: Self-assembly and ordering mechanisms of Ge islands on prepatterned Si(001)
Authors: Pascale, Alina 
Berbezier, Isabelle 
Ronda, Antoine 
Kelires, Pantelis C. 
metadata.dc.contributor.other: Κελίρης, Παντελής
Major Field of Science: Engineering and Technology
Field Category: Materials Engineering
Issue Date: 2008
Source: Physical Review B. 2008, vol. 77, no. 7
Journal: Physical Review B 
Abstract: Ge deposition on Si 001 substrates patterned by focused ion beams is a promising route toward fabricating highly ordered quantum dots. Depending on the growth temperature T, remarkable orderings of the assembled islands are observed. At low T’s, when diffusion is limited, a metastable phase with dots nucleating in the holes prevails. At high T’s, when diffusion is not limited by kinetics, an equilibrium ordered phase is observed with dots nucleating on the terraces in between the pits. At intermediate T’s, random growth arises. Monte Carlo simulations shed light onto this phenomenon. It is shown that the average stress energy of the equilibrium ordered configuration is significantly lower than the energy of configurations with islands positioned in the pits. Random nucleation gives rise to saddle configurations between the two ordered phases.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/4313
ISSN: 24699969
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075311
Rights: © The American Physical Society
Type: Article
Affiliation : Université Paul Cézanne 
University of Crete 
Cyprus University of Technology 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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