Growth of silicon nanowires on H-terminated Si {111} surface templates studied by transmission electron microscopy

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Ozaki, Nobuhiko ^a,b   Ohno, Yutaka ^a   Kikkawa, Jun ^a   Takeda, Seiji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

CL spectroscopy; H terminated Si surface; HRTEM; Nanocatalysts; Silicon nanowires; Structural variations of silicon nanowires

Indexed keywords

NANOCATALYSTS; NANOWIRES; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CL SPECTROSCOPY; H-TERMINATED SI SURFACES; NANO-CATALYST; SI (1 1 1); SILICON NANOWIRE; STRUCTURAL VARIATION OF SILICON NANOWIRE; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS; SURFACE TEMPLATES; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID MECHANISM; VAPOUR-LIQUID-SOLID MECHANISMS;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33745777738     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/54.suppl_1.i25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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