Instability and transport of metal catalyst in the growth of tapered silicon nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1852-1857

  Cao, Linyou ^a   Garipcan, Bora ^a,b   Atchison, Jennifer S ^a   Ni, Chaoying ^c   Nabet, Bahram ^a   Spanier, Jonathan E ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST-FREE SUBSTRATES; METAL-CATALYZED GROWTH; NANOPARTLCLE-COATED SUBSTRATE; SILICON NANOCONES;

CATALYSIS; MASS TRANSFER; NUCLEATION; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SILICON;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GOLD; METAL; NANOTUBE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 33749662926     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl060533r     Document Type: Article

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