Strong schottky barrier reduction at au-catalyst/gaas-nanowire interfaces by electric dipole formation and fermi-level unpinning

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Suyatin, Dmitry B ^a   Jain, Vishal ^a,b   Nebol'Sin, Valery A ^c   Trägårdh, Johanna ^a   Messing, Maria E ^a   Wagner, Jakob B ^d   Persson, Olof ^d   Timm, Rainer ^d   Mikkelsen, Anders ^d   Maximov, Ivan ^a   Samuelson, Lars ^a   Pettersson, Håkan ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c VORONEZH STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84893862090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4221     Document Type: Article

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