Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010njph...12j3011r&link_type=abstract
New Journal of Physics, Volume 12, Issue 10, pp. 103011 (2010).
Physics
Scientific paper
Epitaxial growth of self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) on single-crystal nanomembranes yields organized arrays of QDs via a growth mode mediated by QD-induced strains in the membrane. A crucial aspect of this effect arises because epitaxial growth on thin Si sheets and nanostructures derived from them can occur simultaneously on two surfaces separated only by the 10-nm-scale thickness of the membrane. A QD on one surface of a free-standing membrane causes the nucleation of QDs in specific positions on the opposite surface. Control experiments using molecular beam epitaxy to deposit QDs on a single surface do not yield long-range order. Through-membrane elastic interactions consistent with predictions from finite-element-based mechanics models are observed using synchrotron x-ray microdiffraction. The role of crystallographic anisotropy is evident in finite-element predictions of the strains that bias the nucleation events. The scaling of the dot spacing with membrane thickness is consistent with the spacing of nucleation sites predicted using the mechanical model.
Cai Zhi
Detert D. M.
Evans Paul G.
Flack F. S.
Kelly Matthew
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