Single-crystal gallium nitride nanotubes

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6932, 2003, Pages 599-602

  Goldberger, Joshua ^a   He, Rongrui ^a   Zhang, Yanfeng ^b   Lee, Sangkwon ^b   Yan, Haoquan ^a   Choi, Heon Jin ^b   Yang, Peidong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GALLIUM NITRIDE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRATE; NANOPARTICLE;

GALLIUM; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EVAPORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYNTHESIS; THERMOREGULATION; TUBE; VAPOR;

EID: 0037431254     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01551     Document Type: Article

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