Crystalline silicon nanotubes and their connections with gold nanowires in both linear and branched topologies

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7105-7112

  Chen, Bensong ^a   Meng, Guowen ^a   Xu, Qiaoling ^a   Zhu, Xiaoguang ^a   Kong, Mingguang ^a   Chu, Zhaoqin ^a   Han, Fangming ^a   Zhang, Zhuo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

gold nanowires; interconnected heterostructures; linear and branched topologies; silicon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

AAO TEMPLATE; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; GOLD NANOWIRE; HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; INTERCONNECTED HETEROSTRUCTURES; LINEAR AND BRANCHED TOPOLOGIES; NANO-DEVICES; NANOCIRCUITS; NANOSCALE CIRCUITS; PERIODIC TABLE; POROUS ANODIC ALUMINUM OXIDES; POST ANNEALING; RATIONAL DESIGN; SELF-CATALYZED; SELF-CATALYZED GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SILICON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; GOLD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSYSTEMS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; TOPOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 78650728041     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102689z     Document Type: Article

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