The nanostructure formations on the stranski krastanow film-substrate system

Abstract

The thesis presents our study about the formation of nanostructures on the Stranski-Krastanow film-substrate system and our proposed schemes to control the self-assemblednanostructures in term of size, shape and site. The study is conducted via two approaches: the energy analysis using the first orderboundary perturbation method and 3-dimensional numerical simulation for the morphologicalevolution in the SK system. It is demonstrated in this thesis that the combinationof these two methods is a powerful tool to analyze the nanostructures formation in theSK system.