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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2013

Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of the growth of silicon germanium pyramids

Philippe Gaillard
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Jean-Noël Aqua
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We investigate the nucleation and growth of anisotropic and strained quantum dots in heteroepitaxy by means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Surface energy anisotropy is introduced in order to depict Ge-like dots with (105) facets growing on a Si (100) substrate. Three dimensional islands, mainly in the form of square-base pyramids, are reported and their coarsening is found to be interrupted during annealing. The resulting island density follows the scaling law rho similar to (D/F)(-alpha) with alpha similar or equal to 0.6 as a function of the diffusion D to flux F ratio. The island size distribution follows the scaling law resulting from the assumption of a single length scale. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.125310
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Philippe Gaillard, Jean-Noël Aqua, Thomas Frisch. Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of the growth of silicon germanium pyramids. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2013, 87 (12), pp.125310. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.87.125310⟩. ⟨hal-01238962⟩
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