Spontaneous growth and phase transformation of highly conductive nickel germanide nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5006-5014

  Yan, Chaoyi ^a   Higgins, Jeremy M ^b   Faber, Matthew S ^b   Lee, Pooi See ^a   Jin, Song ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

nanoelectronics; nanowire; nickel germanide; phase transformation; resistivity

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; BUILDING BLOCKES; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL STUDIES; GERMANIDES; KINETIC FACTORS; NANO-PHASE; NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES; NICKEL GERMANIDE; PHASE TRANSFORMATION; POROUS NI; SPONTANEOUS GROWTH; STUDY AND APPLICATIONS; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GERMANIUM; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; METASTABLE PHASES; NANOELECTRONICS; NANOWIRES; NICKEL; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ELECTRIC WIRE;

EID: 79959782709     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201108u     Document Type: Article

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