AVS 54th International Symposium
    Electronic Materials and Processing Tuesday Sessions
       Session EM+NS-TuA

Invited Paper EM+NS-TuA2
Medard W. Welch Award Lecture - Growth of Semiconductor Nanostructures: Simple Models for Complex Behavior

Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 2:00 pm, Room 612

Session: Semiconductor Nanostructures for Electronics and Optoelectronics II
Presenter: J. Tersoff, IBM T.J. Watson Center
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Epitaxial islands and wires can "self assemble" during growth, producing quantum dots and nanowires with sub-lithographic dimensions. Such growth exhibits many remarkable and puzzling features, which must be understood in order to grow well controlled nanostructures. I will describe simple models that can explain many of the phenomena observed during growth of quantum dots in strained-layer heteroepitaxy, and also some recently discovered phenomena in growth of nanowires via the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism.