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Effect of strain / lattice mismatch

  • N. Grandjean, J. Massies, Epitaxial growth of highly strained InxGa1−xAs on GaAs(001): the role of surface diffusion length, Journal of Crystal Growth 134, Issues 1-2, 51-62 (1993).



  • R. F. Sabiryanov, M. I. Larsson, K. J. Cho, W. D. Nix, and B. M. Clemens, Surface diffusion and growth of patterned nanostructures on strained surfaces, Phys. Rev. B, 67, 125412, (2003)
  • M. I. Larsson, R. F. Sabiryanov, K. J. Cho and B. M. Clemens, Surface strain effects on adatom kinetics and self-assembly, Surf. Sci. Lett., 536, L389, (2003)
  • M. I. Larsson, R. F. Sabiryanov, K. J. Cho and B. M. Clemens, Nanopatterning of periodically strained surfaces: Predictive kinetic Monte Carlo study, J. Appl. Phys., 94, 3470, (2003)
  • M. I. Larsson, K. J. Cho and B. M. Clemens, Surface diffusion mechanisms for strain-induced self-assembly, Phys. Rev. B, 69, 155426, (2004)


  • C. Ratch and A. Zangwill, Equiibrium theory of the Stranski - Krastanov epitaxial morphology, Surf. Sci., 293, 123, (1993)
  • C. Ratch and A. Zangwill, Step-flow growth on strained surfaces, Appl. Phys. Lett., 63, 2348, (1993)
  • C. Ratch, A. Zangwill and P. ©milauer, Scaling of heteroepitaxial island sizes, Surf. Sci., 314, L937, (1994)
  • C. Ratch, M.D. Nelson and A. Zangwill, Theory of strained-layer epitaxial growth near step flow, Phys. Rev. B., 50, 14489, (1994)
  • C. Ratch, A. P. Seitsonen and M. Scheffler, Strain dependence of surface diffusion: Ag on Ag(111) and Pt(111), Phys. Rev. B., 55, 6750, (1996)


  • H. Brune, K. Bromann, H. Röder, and K. Kern, Effect of strain on surface diffusion and nucleation, Phys. Rev. B, 52, R14380 - R14383 (1995).
  • M. Schroeder, and D.E. Wolf, Diffusion on strained surfaces, Surface Science, 375, 129-140, (1997).
  • E. Penev, P. Kratzer, M. Scheffler, Effect of strain on surface diffusion in semiconductor heteroepitaxy, Phys. Rev. B, 64, 85401, (2001).
  • G Russo, P Smereka, Computation of strained epitaxial growth in three dimensions by kinetic Monte Carlo, J. Comput. Phys., 214, 809-828, (2006).

Effect of edge diffusion

  • G. S. Bales and D. C. Chrzan, Phys. Rev. B, 50, 6057 (1994)
  • S. Schinzer, M. Kinne, M. Biehl, W. Kinzel, Surface Science, 439, 191 (1999)
  • C. Ratsch, M. C. Wheeler, and M. F. Gyure, Phys. Rev. B, 62, 12636 (2000)
  • S. B. Lee and C. W. Lee, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 22, 2000 (2003)
  • M. V. Ramana Murty and B. H. Cooper, Surface Science, 539, 91 (2003)

Alloy segregation

  • Segregation and ordering at Fe1-x Alx(1 0 0)surfaces - a model case for binary alloys, V. Blum, L. Hammer, W. Meier, K. Heinz, M. Schmid, Surface Science, 474, 81, (2001).

Alloy growth

  • Interplay between phase ordering and roughening on growing films, B. Drossel and M. Kardar, European Physical Journal B, 36 (3), 401, (2003).

Surface Alloy

  • A two-component Frenkel-Kontorova model for surface alloy formation, I. Daruka and J.C. Hamilton, J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. 15 1827, (2003).

Elastic vs. chemical interaction

  • Devil's Staircases in Bulk-Immiscible Alloy Films, B.D. Krack, V. Ozolins, M. Asta, and D. Daruka, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 186101, (2002).

Nanodots

  • Size selected growth of nanodots: effects of growth kinetics and energetics on the formation of stationary size distributions, K. A. Nevalainen, M. Rusanen, and I. T. Koponen, European Physical Journal B, 56, 311-322, (2007)

Nanostripes on metal

  • Growth of composition-modulated Ag/Co wires on Pt(997), P. Gambardella, et al., Phys. Rev. B, 64, 045404, (2001).

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