Engineering the growth of germanium nanowires by tuning the supersaturation of Au/Ge binary alloy catalysts

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3096-3104

  O'Regan, Colm ^a,b   Biswas, Subhajit ^a,b   O'Kelly, Curtis ^b,c   Jung, Soon Jung ^b,c   Boland, John J ^b,c   Petkov, Nikolay ^a,b   Holmes, Justin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN)   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

germanium; growth rate; nanowires; supersaturation; vapor liquid solid growth

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION CONTRAST; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; GE CONCENTRATIONS; GERMANIUM NANOWIRES; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID GROWTH;

ASPECT RATIO; BINARY ALLOYS; CATALYSTS; FILM GROWTH; GOLD; GROWTH KINETICS; GROWTH RATE; MAGNETIC FILMS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; PHASE SEPARATION; SUBSTRATES; SUPERSATURATION; VAPORS;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 84882282565     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm401281y     Document Type: Article

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