Epitaxial II-VI tripod nanocrystals: A generalization of van der Waals epitaxy for nonplanar polytypic nanoarchitectures

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2281-2288

  Utama, Muhammad Iqbal Bakti ^a   Zhang, Qing ^a   Jia, Shuangfeng ^b   Li, Dehui ^a   Wang, Jianbo ^b   Xiong, Qihua ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

heteroepitaxy; II VI semiconductor; muscovite mica; nanostructures; nanotripods; van der Waals epitaxy

Indexed keywords

CDS; CDSE; CDTE; II-VI COMPOUNDS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTOR; IN-PLANE ALIGNMENT; LATTICE MATCHING; MICA SURFACES; MUSCOVITE MICA; NANOARCHITECTURES; NANOTRIPODS; ORDERED ARRAY; SEEDED-GROWTH MECHANISM; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; VAN DER WAALS EPITAXY; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; ZNO;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICA; NANOCRYSTALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; ZINC COMPOUNDS; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 84859142145     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204344z     Document Type: Article

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