Tailoring the Optical Properties of Silicon Nanowire Arrays through Strain

Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 811-816

  Lyons, Daniel M ^a   Ryan, Kevin M ^a   Morris, Michael A ^a   Holmes, Justin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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EID: 0038415297     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0256098     Document Type: Article

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