Why self-catalyzed nanowires are most suitable for large-scale hierarchical integrated designs of nanowire nanoelectronics

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Noor Mohammad, S ^a,b  

^a Sciencotech   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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ACOUSTIC-PHONON SCATTERING; CONTROLLED GROWTH; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DISLOCATION SCATTERING; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; GROWTH DIRECTIONS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; IONIZED IMPURITY SCATTERING; LARGE ARRAYS; NANOPIPES; NANOWIRE GROWTH; OXIDE-ASSISTED GROWTHS; POLYTYPISM; SELF-ALIGNED; SELF-CATALYTIC; SELF-CATALYZED; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; UNIQUE FEATURES; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; DEFECTS; EXPERIMENTS; NANOELECTRONICS; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING; SEED; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STACKING FAULTS; ULSI CIRCUITS; VAPORS;

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EID: 80655141556     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3624585     Document Type: Article

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