Engineering island-chain silicon nanowires via a droplet mediated Plateau-Rayleigh transformation
The ability to program periodic morphology into nanowires affords control over photonic and electronic transport properties. Here, the authors stimulate Plateau-Rayleigh transformations in silicon nanowires through an oscillating catalyst droplet, resulting in nanowires with island-chain morphology.
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: |
Zhaoguo Xue,
Mingkun Xu,
Yaolong Zhao,
Jimmy Wang,
Xiaofan Jiang,
Linwei Yu,
Junzhuan Wang,
Jun Xu,
Yi Shi,
Kunji Chen,
Pere Roca i Cabarrocas |
Format: | Article
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Nature Publishing Group
2016-09-01
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Series: | Nature Communications
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12836
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