Interplay between quantum size effect and strain effect on growth of nanoscale metal thin films

Quantum Confinement Drives Macroscopic Stress Oscillations at the Initial Stage of Thin Film Growth

(2012) David Flötotto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Quantum Electronic Stress: Density-Functional-Theory Formulation and Physical Manifestation

(2012) Hao Hu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Quantum growth of a metal/insulator system: Lead on sapphire

(2010) Hawoong Hong et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Lattice expansion in islands stabilized by electron confinement: Ag onSi(111)−7×7

(2010) Barış Ünal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Structure and Growth of Height-Selected Ag Islands on Fivefoldi−AlPdMnQuasicrystalline Surfaces: STM Analysis and Step Dynamics Modeling

(2009) Barış Ünal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Phase Relations Associated with One-Dimensional Shell Effects in Thin Metal Films

(2009) T. Miller et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Monte carlo simulations of growth modes of Pb nanoislands on Si(111) surface

(2008) Z. Kuntová et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B

Theory of Directed Nucleation of Strained Islands on Patterned Substrates

(2008) Hao Hu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS