Interplay of strain relaxation

anisms (i) or (ii) alone can account for known experimental observations. Rather, a combination of both is needed. We present an off-lattice model which allows for a qualitative reproduction of stripe patterns as well as island ramification Heteroepitaxial growth of thin films has been a field of growing interest in recent years [1] as it dis-plays a variety of highly non-trivial phenomena. Among these are, e.g., the self-organized formation of three-dimensional islands, so-called Quantum eserved