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 | Liu, Feng | Bending of nanoscale ultrathin substrates by growth of strained thin films and islands | Mechanical bending is ubiquitous in heteroepitaxial growth of thin films where the strained growing film applies effectively an "external" stress to bend the substrate. Conventionally, when the deposited film is much thinner than the substrate, the bending increases linearly with increasing film th... | Nanoscale ultrathin substrates; Strained thin films; Islands; Heteroepitaxial growth; Si substrate; Ge film | 2005-08 |
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 | Liu, Feng | First-principles study of strain stabilization of Ge(105) facet on Si(001) | Using the first-principles total energy method, we calculate surface energies, surface stresses, and their strain dependence of the Ge-covered Si (001) and (105) surfaces. The surface energy of the Si(105) surface is shown to be higher than that of Si(001), but it can be reduced by the Ge deposition... | First-principles calculation; Strain stabilization; Ge(105); Si(001); Strained thin films; Epitaxial growth | 2005-09 |
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 | Liu, Feng | Surface mobility difference between Si and Ge and its effect on growth of SiGe alloy films and islands | Based on first-principles calculations of surface diffusion barriers, we show that on a compressive Ge(001) surface the diffusivity of Ge is 102-103 times higher than that of Si in the temperature range of 300 to 900 K, while on a tensile surface, the two diffusivities are comparable. Consequently, ... | Surface mobility; SiGe film; Strained thin films; Surface diffusion barriers | 2006-01 |
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