Low Temperature Colloidal Synthesis of Silicon Nanorods from Isotetrasilane, Neopentasilane, and Cyclohexasilane

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 6053-6058

  Lu, Xiaotang ^a   Anderson, Kenneth J ^b   Boudjouk, Philip ^b   Korgel, Brian A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH TEMPERATURE; HYDRIDES; POLYSILANES; TEMPERATURE; TIN;

COLLOIDAL SYNTHESIS; EMISSION QUANTUM YIELD; LIQUID SOLIDS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANOROD GROWTH; NANORODS GROWN; SILYLENES; SINGLE-STEP;

NANORODS;

EID: 84941056698     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02487     Document Type: Article

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