Experimental corroboration of the Mulheran-Blackman explanation of the scale invariance in thin film growth: the case of InAs quantum dots on GaAs(001)

M. Fanfoni, E. Placidi, F. Arciprete +3

Mulheran and Blackman have provided a simple and clear explanation of the scale invariance of the island size distribution at the early stage of film growth [Phil. Mag. Lett. 72, 5…