Antiphase boundary network: A route to extract the island nucleation density

Zoethout, E. and Hoogenhof van den, P.W. and Zandvliet, H.J.W. and Poelsema, Bene (2002) Antiphase boundary network: A route to extract the island nucleation density. Journal of Applied Physics, 92 (10). pp. 5785-5787. ISSN 0021-8979

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Abstract:	Epitaxial growth of Si or Ge on Si(001) and Ge(001) surfaces leads to the formation of an antiphase boundary network because adjacent (2×1) reconstructed islands can either be in-phase or out-of-phase with each other. We show that this antiphase boundary network can be used to extract the saturation island nucleation density well after the onset of coalescence. This method is more accurate than the commonly used method of counting the islands in the low coverage regime
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2002 American Institute of Physics
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials (PIN)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/73078
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1509846
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