Strain-controlled growth of nanowires within thin-film cracks

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 375-379

  Adelung, Rainer ^a   Cenkaktas, Oral ^a   Franc, Janice ^a   Biswas, Abhijit ^a   Kunz, Rainer ^a   Elbahri, Mady ^a   Kanzow, Jörn ^a   Schürmann, Ulrich ^a   Faupel, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FRACTURE; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MICROSTRUCTURE; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN; THERMAL CYCLING; THIN FILMS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

CARBON THIN FILMS; DETECTION LIMITS; NANOWIRES; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 2942610819     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1128     Document Type: Article

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