Morphological evolution and ordered quantum structure formation in heteroepitaxial core-shell nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4455-4462

  Guo, Jun Yan ^a,b   Zhang, Yong Wei ^a,b   Shenoy, Vivek B ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Core shell nanowire; Instability; Misfit strain; Quantum structures; Surface morphology

Indexed keywords

CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; DYNAMIC EVOLUTION; HETEROEPITAXIAL; INSTABILITY; MATERIAL PARAMETER; META-STABLE STATE; MISFIT STRAIN; MISMATCH STRAIN; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NANORING ARRAYS; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; PRE-PATTERNING; QUANTUM DOT ARRAYS; QUANTUM STRUCTURE; SURFACE CONFIGURATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM THEORY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SURFACES;

SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78650102035     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101218r     Document Type: Article

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