Silicon nanowire band gap modification

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-38

  Nolan, Michael ^a   O'Callaghan, Sean ^a   Fagas, Giorgos ^a   Greer, James C ^a   Frauenheim, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; HYDROGENATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SURFACE TREATMENT;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYBRIDIZATION; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SURFACE TERMINATION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOWIRE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOWIRES; SILICON;

EID: 33846882606     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl061888d     Document Type: Article

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