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
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12836