Precise control of highly ordered arrays of nested semiconductor/metal nanotubes

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 164-170

  Gu, Diefeng ^a,b   Baumgart, Helmut ^a,b   Tapily, Kandabara ^a,b   Shrestha, Pragya ^a,b   Namkoong, Gon ^a,b   Ao, Xianyu ^c   Müller, Frank ^c  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b Applied Research Center   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) platinum nanotubes; microporous Si templates; multilayer nested nanotubes; nanoporous alumina templates; semiconductor metal nanotubes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551606186     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-0066-9     Document Type: Article

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