Gallium-driven assembly of gold nanowire networks

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1592-1594

  Yazdanpanah, Mehdi M ^a   Harfenist, Steven A ^a   Cohn, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITE FORMATION; EUTECTIC GROWTH; MELTING POINTS; NANOWIRE NETWORKS;

ADHESION; BACKSCATTERING; CATALYSTS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ETCHING; GALLIUM; GOLD; GROWTH KINETICS; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICON; SPUTTERING; THIN FILMS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 4944262698     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1787938     Document Type: Article

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