Incommensurate van der Waals epitaxy of nanowire arrays: A case study with ZnO on muscovite mica substrates

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2146-2152

  Utama, Muhammad Iqbal Bakti ^a   Belarre, Francisco J ^b   Magen, Cesar ^c   Peng, Bo ^a   Arbiol, Jordi ^b,d   Xiong, Qihua ^a,e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

annular bright field microscopy; heteroepitaxy; nanorods; nanowire array; van der Waals epitaxy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; ATOMIC MODELING; BRIGHT FIELDS; BRIGHT-FIELD MICROSCOPY; COMPLETE LATTICES; DEFECT-FREE; DIFFRACTOMETRY; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; HETERO INTERFACES; HETEROEPITAXIAL; LATTICE MATCHING; MUSCOVITE MICA; NANOARCHITECTURES; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; VAN DER WAALS EPITAXY; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; ZNO; ZNO NANOWIRES;

ATOMS; DEFECTS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MICA; NANORODS; NANOWIRES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VISUALIZATION; ZINC OXIDE;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84859117463     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl300554t     Document Type: Article

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