Coexistence and competition of surface diffusion and geometric shielding in the growth of 1D bismuth nanostructures and their ohmic contact

Materials Research Express

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Tian, Ye ^a,b   Jiang, Lianjun ^a   Zhang, Xuejun ^a   Deng, Yangbao ^a   Deng, Shuguang ^a  

^a HUNAN CITY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

1D nanostructure; Bismuth; Physical vapor deposition

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC CONTACTORS; ETCHING; OHMIC CONTACTS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SHIELDING; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

1-D NANOSTRUCTURES; BI NANOWIRES; GROWTH-MODE TRANSITION; NANO-COLUMNS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITED; SURFACE OXIDE LAYER; VACUUM PROCESS; [110] DIRECTION;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84947723607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/1/3/035034     Document Type: Article

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