Colossal injection of catalyst atoms into silicon nanowires

Nature

Volumn 496, Issue 7443, 2013, Pages 78-82

  Moutanabbir, Oussama ^a   Isheim, Dieter ^b   Blumtritt, Horst ^c   Senz, Stephan ^c   Pippel, Eckhard ^c   Seidman, David N ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NANOWIRE; SILICON;

ALUMINUM; CATALYST; DISSOLUTION; GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; LASER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOLUBILITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84875886138     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11999     Document Type: Article

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