-to study the early stages of interfacial dislocation formation in lattice-mismatched heteroepitaxy. The insights gain may lead us to develop processes that can form periodic dislocation lines/arrays in-situ
-to use the pattern developed as a result of 8.1 as a template to form laterally- and vertically-aligned QDs
-to characterise the structural and optical properties of the structures formed in 8.2 by microscopy and spectroscopy.
