Atomistics of vapour–liquid–solid nanowire growth

Vapour–liquid–solid route and its variants are routinely used for scalable synthesis of semiconducting nanowires, yet the fundamental growth processes remain unknown. Here we employ atomic-scale computations based on model potentials to study the stability and growth of gold-catalysed silicon nanowi...

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Main Authors: Wang, Hailong, Zepeda-Ruiz, Luis A., Gilmer, George H., Upmanyu, Moneesh
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3709494/