Formation of metastable liquid catalyst during subeutectic growth of germanium nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2972-2976

  Gamalski, A D ^a   Tersoff, J ^b   Sharma, R ^c,d   Ducati, C ^a   Hofmann, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CVD; environmental TEM; Ge nanowire; nanocatalyst; phase diagram

Indexed keywords

AU CATALYSTS; CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; CVD; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUTECTIC TEMPERATURE; GERMANIUM NANOWIRES; METASTABLE LIQUID; NANO-CATALYST; NANOWIRE GROWTH; SUBEUTECTIC; TEM; VIDEO RATES;

CATALYSTS; GERMANIUM; GOLD; NANOWIRES; ORE TREATMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 77955583811     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl101349e     Document Type: Article

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