Study of three dimensional germanium islands and ultrathin Si_1tnxGe_1tn1_1tn-_1tnx films grown by chemical vapour deposition on Si(111)-(7x7) [Elektronische Ressource] / Selvi Gopalakrishnan

STUDY OF THREE DIMENSIONAL GERMANIUM ISLANDS AND ULTRATHIN Si Ge FILMS GROWN BY CHEMICAL x 1-x×VAPOUR DEPOSITION ON Si(111)-(7 7) Selvi Gopalakrishnan M.Sci. Stud. (U. of Newcastle, Aust.), B.Sc. (NUS, Singapore) A thesis submitted to fulfil the requirements for the award of the degree Dr. rer. nat. Department of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis University of Ulm, Germany July 2005 Fac quod aequum est non quod facile est Dean of the Faculty of Science : Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Spindler st1 Examiner : Prof. Dr. R.J. Behm nd2 Examiner : Prof. Dr. N. Hüsing Date of Submission : July 2005 Declaration I hereby certify that the work embodied in this thesis is the result of original research and has not been submitted for a higher degree to any other University or Instituition.