Unconventional ribbon-shaped β-Ga2O3 tubes with mobile Sn nanowire fillings

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-112

  Hu, Junqing ^a,b   Li, Quan ^c   Zhan, Jinhua ^a   Jiao, Yang ^c   Liu, Zongwen ^d   Ringer, Simon P ^d   Bando, Yoshio ^a   Golberg, Dmitri ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ga2O3; Electrical switches; Electron beam irradiation; Ribbon shaped tubes; Sn nanowire

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON TUBES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OXIDATION; PYROLYSIS;

ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; RIBBON-SHAPED TUBES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 42549100071     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn700285d     Document Type: Article

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