Nanoscience and nanotechnology are tremendously increasing fields of research that aim at
producing, characterizing and understanding nanoobjects and assemblies of nanoobjects …

Many recent advances in microelectronics would not have been possible without the
development of strain induced nanodevices and bandgap engineering, in particular …

During heteroepitaxy, misfit strain causes nanoscale islands to form spontaneously, as “self-
assembled quantum dots.” The growth and evolution of these islands are remarkably …

For heteroepitaxial growth of InAs islands on GaAs (001), a transition of shapes is observed
experimentally by scanning-tunneling microscopy and analyzed theoretically in terms of the …

Polycrystalline gold films coated with thiol-based self-assembled monolayers (SAM) form the
basis of a wide range of nanomechanical sensor platforms. The detection of adsorbates with …

Abstract The Mg-Y-Zn ternary alloy system contains a series of novel structures known as
long-period stacking ordered (LPSO) structures. The formation process and its key concept …

We investigate the morphological evolution of islands obtained by epitaxial growth of Ge on
Si (001) substrates. We are able to obtain highly uniform distributions of SiGe islands, which …

The instability of strained films for island formation is examined through an approach
incorporating both discrete microscopic details and continuum mechanics. A linear …

We report on the formation of ordered and size homogeneous InAs quantum dot (QD) arrays
on patterned GaAs (001) substrates. A material depletion region is observed around the …

A strained epitaxial film deposited on a deformable substrate undergoes a morphological
instability, relaxing the elastic energy by surface diffusion. The nonlinear dynamical equation …