Theory of repeating nucleation in point contact reactions between nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4799-4806

  Kovalchuk, Andriy O ^a   Gusak, Andriy M ^a   Tu, King N ^b  

^a CHERKASY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

classical nucleation theory; epitaxial growth; homogeneous nucleation; Nanowires; nucleation rate; point contact reactions

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; CONTACT REACTION; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; EPITAXIAL SILICIDES; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; INCUBATION TIME; NANO-HETEROSTRUCTURES; NANOSCALE LEVELS; NON-STATIONARY CONDITION; NUCLEATION RATE; NUCLEATION THEORY; POINT CONTACT REACTIONS; QUASI-STATIONARY; SILICON NANOWIRES;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; NANOWIRES; POINT CONTACTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICIDES;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 78650167725     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl100969d     Document Type: Article

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