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Deposition of one or a few monolayers of a semiconductor having a lattice constant largely different from the underlying substrate leads to formation of coherent “quantum dot arrays” of densities beyond 10 11 cm −2 in a matter of seconds. Self-organization effects govern their massively parallel formation. Fundamental paradigms of semiconductor physics must be changed in describing such quantum dots or their ensembles.
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