Huge metastable axial strain in ultrathin heteroepitaxial vertically aligned nanowires

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1964-1974

  Schuler, Vivien ^a   Bonilla, Francisco Javier ^a,e   Demaille, Dominique ^a   Coati, Alessandro ^b   Vlad, Alina ^b   Garreau, Yves ^b,c   Sauvage Simkin, Michèle ^b   Novikova, Anastasiia ^b   Fonda, Emiliano ^b   Hidki, Sarah ^a   Etgens, Victor ^d   Vidal, Franck ^a   Zheng, Yunlin ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e Institut National des Sciences Appliquées   (France)

Author keywords

heteroepitaxy; nanowires; self assembly; strain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937515369     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0706-1     Document Type: Article

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