Nanoherding: Plasma-chemical synthesis and electric-charge-driven self organization of SiO2 nanodots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 681-686

  Levchenko, I ^b,c   Cvelbar, U ^a   Modic, M ^a   Filipic G ^a   Zhong, X X ^d   Mozetic M ^a   Ostrikov, K ^b,c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

charge driven self organization; chemically active plasma; nanodots; nanopatterns

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OXYGEN; BIOSENSING; CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; LARGE ARRAYS; NANO PATTERN; NANODOTS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SEMICONDUCTING SURFACES; SURFACE PROCESS;

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY CONVERSION; IONIZATION OF GASES; SILICON OXIDES;

PLASMAS;

EID: 84874133437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400092m     Document Type: Article

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