Ultimate-strength germanium nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2964-2968

  Ngo, Lien T ^a   Almécija, Dorothée ^a   Sader, John E ^b   Daly, Brian ^a,c   Petkov, Nikolay ^c   Holmes, Justin D ^a,c   Erts, Donats ^d   Boland, John J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

BULK VALUE; GERMANIUM NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES (NW);

NANOTUBES;

EID: 33846353537     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0619397     Document Type: Article

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