A nickel-gold bilayer catalyst engineering technique for self-assembled growth of highly ordered silicon nanotubes (SiNT)

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 889-897

  Taghinejad, M ^a   Taghinejad, H ^a   Abdolahad, M ^a   Mohajerzadeh, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

bilayer catalyst; self assembly; Silicon nanotube; solid liquid solid (SLS); vapor liquid solid (VLS)

Indexed keywords

BILAYER-CATALYST; LATERAL FORCE MICROSCOPY; PHOTOEMISSION PROPERTIES; SELF-ASSEMBLED GROWTH; SILICON NANOTUBES; SOLIDLIQUID-SOLID (SLS); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYSTS; GOLD; LIQUIDS; NICKEL; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILICON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPORS;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84874957779     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl303558f     Document Type: Article

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