410 Index
© Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2011
InN, 300–9
interfacial X-ray microscopy, 114
irreversible aggregation, 66
island growth (Volmer-Weber), 84
Kevin–Probe spectroscopy, 272
kinetic Monte Carlo simulations (KMC),
62–3
kinetic roughening, 61
lattice polarity, 289–92
LEED see low energy electron diffraction
LEEM see low energy electron microscopy
Lennard-Jones (L-J) potential, 134
local surface potential, 268
long-range diffusion, 64
low energy electron diffraction, 99–100,
232
low energy electron microscopy, 17
magnetocaloric effect (MCE), 365
main domain, 292, 294
maximum strain, 343, 346
Maxtek TM-350/400, 130
Maxwell relations, 365–7, 369, 371–5
Maxwell–Boltzmann formula, 208
MBE see molecular beam epitaxy
mechanistic model, 76
medium-energy ion scattering
spectroscopy, 14
membrane energy, 343, 345, 349, 350,
355, 356
membrane strain, 345, 346, 349, 350, 351,
356, 357, 358
metal-insulater-semiconductor (MIS)
structure, 307
metal–organic vapour phase epitaxy
(MOVPE/MOCVD), 297
migration, 66–7
moiré lattice, 231, 250
molecular beam epitaxy, 3–4
polarity controlled epitaxy of III-
nitrides and ZnO, 288–314
molecular exciton theory, 111–12
Monte Carlo
simulations, 132–7, 142–4, 390–2
ballistic fans, 132–7
ballistic sticking model, 134
chemical vapour deposition, 389
3D scheme, 125–6, 134
particles deposited on small and big
seeds, 137
templated surface containing seeds,
136
Mott–Schottky plot, 308
Mullins-Sekerka instability, 73
Mylar lm, 157
nanostructures
growth dynamics and network
behaviour in thin lms, 384–400
Monte Carlo simulations, 390–2
origins of network behavior, 390
simulation results, 392–9
network behaviour
simulation results, 392–400
degree distributions, average
distance vs degree and distance
distributions for network models,
397
height matrix and corresponding
surface-degree values, 394
thin lm surfaces for chemical
vapour deposition growth, 395
thin lm surfaces grown under
shadowing, re-emission, and
noise effects, 393
weighted average distance vs degree
for network models, 400
thin lms and nanostructure growth
dynamics, 384–400
growth exponent values vs
predictions of thin lm growth
models, 386
Monte Carlo simulated chemical
vapour deposition, 389
Monte Carlo simulations, 390–2
origins during thin lm growth, 390
simulation results, 392–9
sticking coefcient values, 388
thin lm growth under shadowing
and re-emission effects, 386
Nichols-Mullins equation, 68
nitrogen, 186
re-emission, 198–203
non-coplanar mesh design
maximum strain in the interconnect
bridge vs the prestrain
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