VLS growth mechanism of Si-nanowires for flexible electronics

2015 11th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 349-352

  Shakthivel, D ^a   Taube, W ^a   Raghavan, S ^b   Dahiya, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Flexible elecronics; Kinetic model; Silicon nanowires; VLS mechanism

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTRONICS; NANOWIRES; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SILICON;

FLEXIBLE ELECRONICS; KINETIC MODELING; SILICON NANOWIRES; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID MECHANISM; VLS GROWTH MECHANISM; VLS MECHANISM;

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84946844741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRIME.2015.7251407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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