Incorporation and redistribution of impurities into silicon nanowires during metal-particle-assisted growth

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Wanghua ^a   Yu, Linwei ^a,b   Misra, Soumyadeep ^a   Fan, Zheng ^a   Pareige, Philippe ^c   Patriarche, Gilles ^d   Bouchoule, Sophie ^d   Cabarrocas, Pere Roca I ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ ET INSA DE ROUEN   (France)

^d UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; DIMER; METAL; NANOWIRE; SILICON NANOWIRE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTALLINITY; GROWTH RATE; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; REACTION KINETICS; SILICON; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYST; GROWTH RATE; KINETICS; METAL PARTICLE ASSISTED GROWTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84902449518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5134     Document Type: Article

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