Au stabilization and coverage of sawtooth facets on Si nanowires grown by vapor-liquid-solid epitaxy

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3065-3068

  Wiethoff, Christian ^a   Ross, Frances M ^b   Copel, Matthew ^b   Hoegen, Michael Horn Von ^a   Meyer Zu Heringdorf, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; LIQUIDS; NANOWIRES; SILICON; VAPORS;

AU DROPLETS; IN-SITU; LOW-ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SI NANOWIRES; SI(112); VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID EPITAXIES;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 61549083379     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl801146q     Document Type: Article

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