Engineering island-chain silicon nanowires via a droplet mediated Plateau-Rayleigh transformation

The ability to program highly modulated morphology upon silicon nanowires (SiNWs) has been fundamental to explore new phononic and electronic functionalities. We here exploit a nanoscale locomotion of metal droplets to demonstrate a large and readily controllable morphology engineering of crystallin...

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Published in:Nature communications 2016-09, Vol.7 (1), p.12836-12836, Article 12836
Main Authors: Xue, Zhaoguo, Xu, Mingkun, Zhao, Yaolong, Wang, Jimmy, Jiang, Xiaofan, Yu, Linwei, Wang, Junzhuan, Xu, Jun, Shi, Yi, Chen, Kunji, Roca i Cabarrocas, Pere
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Language:English
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Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences
Morphology
multidisciplinary
Nanowires
Scanning electron microscopy
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Silicon
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Summary:The ability to program highly modulated morphology upon silicon nanowires (SiNWs) has been fundamental to explore new phononic and electronic functionalities. We here exploit a nanoscale locomotion of metal droplets to demonstrate a large and readily controllable morphology engineering of crystalline SiNWs, from straight ones into continuous or discrete island-chains, at temperature
ISSN:2041-1723
2041-1723
DOI:10.1038/ncomms12836