Dislocations and morphological instabilities: Continuum modeling of misfitting heteroepitaxial films
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Mikko Haataja,1,* Judith Müller, A. D. Rutenberg, and Martin Grant Centre for the Physics of Materials, Department of Physics, McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600 rue University, Montréal, Québec H3A 2T8, Canada Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada ~Received 5 November 2001; published 5 April 2002!
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