Controlled growth of highly aligned amorphous SiOx sunflower-like morphology

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1667-1673

  Zhang, Xitian ^a,b   Liu, Zhuang ^a   Zheng, Zhi ^a   Hark, Suikong ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WIRE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NONMETALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OXYGEN; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CONTROLLED GROWTH; NANO WIRES; SELF ASSEMBLING;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 48949117341     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2008.0194     Document Type: Article

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