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Register a new userBunches of misfit dislocations on the onset of relaxation of Si$_{0.4}$Ge$_{0.6}$/Si(001) epitaxial films revealed by high-resolution x-ray diffraction
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The experimental x-ray diffraction patterns of a Si$_{0.4}$Ge$_{0.6}$/Si(001) epitaxial film with a low density of misfit dislocations are modeled by the Monte Carlo method. It is shown that an inhomogeneous distribution of 60$^circ$ dislocations with dislocations arranged in bunches is needed to explain the experiment correctly. As a result of the dislocation bunching, the positions of the x-ray diffraction peaks do not correspond to the average dislocation density but reveal less than a half of the actual relaxation.
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