Single-step, catalyst-free plasma-assisted synthesis and growth mechanism of single-crystalline aluminum nitride nanorods

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Huang, S Y ^a   Cheng, Q J ^b,c   Xu, S ^a   Ostrikov, K ^b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALN; CATALYST-FREE; DENSE PATTERNS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; LOW SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; METAL CATALYST; NITRIDE NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMA DISSOCIATION; PLASMA-ASSISTED GROWTH; PLASMA-ASSISTED SYNTHESIS; PROCESS TEMPERATURE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SINGLE-STEP;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY CONVERSION; NANORODS; NITRIDES;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 78649578696     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3517507     Document Type: Article

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