The fabrication of large-scale sub-10-nm core-shell silicon nanowire arrays

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-7

  Su, Shiming ^a   Lin, Linhan ^a   Li, Zhengcao ^a   Feng, Jiayou ^a   Zhang, Zhengjun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Core shell silicon nanowire; Metal catalytic etching; Polystyrene sphere; Self limiting oxidation

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC OXIDATION; NANOWIRES; OXIDATION; POLYSTYRENES; SILICON; SPHERES;

CATALYTIC ETCHING; CONTROLLABLE DIAMETER; LOWER TEMPERATURES; POLYSTYRENE SPHERES; SELF-LIMITING EFFECT; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SILICON NANOWIRES; SYNTHESIS PROCESS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84887278378     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-405     Document Type: Article

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