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Stress Relaxation Phenomena in Buried Quantum Dots

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Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

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Bert, N., Chaldyshev, V., Kolesnikova, A., Romanov, A. (2008). Stress Relaxation Phenomena in Buried Quantum Dots. In: Wang, Z.M. (eds) Self-Assembled Quantum Dots. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74191-8_10

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