Self-forming Si nanospheres: New prospects for good old silicon

Journal of Advanced Materials

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 64-78

  Belogorokhov, Alexander I ^a   Parhomenko, Yury N ^a   Karpov, Yury A ^a   Popov, Inna ^b   Gutkin, Vitaly ^b   Uvarov, Vladimir ^b   Belogorokhova, Lubov I ^c   Kuselman, Ilya ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF RARE METALS   (Russian Federation)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d National Physical Laboratory of Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICAS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; CORE-SHELL STRUCTURES; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; HUMAN ORGANISMS; NANO SIZES; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIES; OXIDE SHELLS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SILICA CORES; SILICON-BASED; SPHERICAL MORPHOLOGIES; THIN SHELLS; UV RADIATIONS; X- RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

NANOSPHERES; NONMETALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 65349092414     PISSN: 10709789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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