Selective area growth of well-ordered ZnO nanowire arrays with controllable polarity

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4761-4770

  Consonni, Vincent ^a,b   Sarigiannidou, Eirini ^a,b   Appert, Estelle ^a,b   Bocheux, Amandine ^c   Guillemin, Sophie ^a,b   Donatini, Fabrice ^a,d   Robin, Ivan Christophe ^c   Kioseoglou, Joseph ^e   Robaut, Florence ^f  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES MATÉRIAUX ET DU GÉNIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^f Grenoble INP   (France)

Author keywords

cathodoluminescence; chemical bath deposition; polarity; selective area growth; ZnO nanowires

Indexed keywords

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; VAPORS; ZINC;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL TECHNIQUES; POLARITY; SELECTIVE AREA GROWTH; VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITION; ZNO NANOWIRES;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84901649586     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500620t     Document Type: Article

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