Morphological evolution, growth mechanism, and magneto-transport properties of silver telluride one-dimensional nanostructures

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Li, GaoMin ^a   Tang, XiaoBing ^a   Zhou, ShaoMin ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Yuan, XianYou ^b  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Growth mechanism; Magneto transport properties; Morphological evolution; One dimensional nanostructures; Silver telluride

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NANOWIRES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GROWTH MECHANISMS; MAGNETO TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE; SILVER TELLURIDE;

SILVER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84887263272     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-356     Document Type: Article

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