Structural and optical verification of residual strain effect in single crystalline CdTe nanowires

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 228-235

  Huang, Liubing ^a   Lu, Siyuan ^b   Chang, Paichun ^a   Banerjee, Karan ^a   Hellwarth, Robert ^a   Lu, Jia Grace ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CdTe nanowire; chemical vapor deposition; photoluminescence; residual strain; single crystalline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894362061     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0390-y     Document Type: Article

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