Effect of oxide overlayer formation on the growth of gold catalyzed epitaxial silicon nanowires

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Jagannathan, Hemanth ^a,b   Nishi, Yoshio ^a   Reuter, Mark ^b   Copel, Matthew ^b   Tutuc, Emanuel ^b   Guha, Supratik ^b   Pezzi, Rafael P ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE GROWTH; NUCLEATION DENSITY;

CATALYSIS; DIFFUSION; GOLD; NUCLEATION; SILICA; SUBSTRATES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33644922052     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2179370     Document Type: Article

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