Phase selection enabled formation of abrupt axial heterojunctions in branched oxide nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 275-280

  Gao, Jing ^a   Lebedev, Oleg I ^b   Turner, Stuart ^c   Li, Yong Feng ^a   Lu, Yun Hao ^d,e   Feng, Yuan Ping ^d   Boullay, Philippe ^b   Prellier, Wilfrid ^b   Van Tendeloo, Gustaaf ^c   Wu, Tom ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b LABORATOIRE CRISMAT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

branched nanowire; heterojunction; indium tin oxide; phase selection; Vapor liquid solid growth

Indexed keywords

BIXBYITE; CUBIC PHASE; DEFECT-FREE; EPITAXIAL INTERFACES; EQUIMOLAR CONCENTRATIONS; FLUORITE PHASE; IN-SITU; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; NANO-DEVICES; PHASE SELECTION; RATIONAL SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SYNTHESIS ROUTE; TIN DOPED INDIUM OXIDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; VAPOR TRANSPORT; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID GROWTH; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID MECHANISM;

COPPER ALLOYS; INDIUM; INDIUM ALLOYS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIQUIDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TIN; TIN OXIDES; TINNING; VAPORS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

INDIUM TIN OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; OXIDE; TIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84855770668     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2035089     Document Type: Article

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