Vertically oriented germanium nanowires grown from gold colloids on silicon substrates and subsequent gold removal

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1637-1642

  Woodruff, Jacob H ^a   Ratchford, Joshua B ^a   Goldthorpe, Irene A ^b   McIntyre, Paul C ^b   Chidsey, Christopher E D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD REMOVAL; MODEL SYSTEM; OXIDE FORMATION; UNIFORM DIAMETER;

CATALYSTS; COLLOIDS; DEPOSITION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GERMANIUM; GOLD; GROWTH (MATERIALS); SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

NANOWIRES;

COLLOIDAL GOLD; GERMANIUM; GOLD; NANOTUBE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GERMANIUM; GOLD; GOLD COLLOID; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34547257869     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl070595x     Document Type: Article

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