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A Non-Traditional Vapor-Liquid-Solid Method for Bulk Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanowires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Shashank Sharma ,
Mahendra K. Sunkara ,
Guoda Lian  and
Elizabeth C. Dickey
Shashank Sharma
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Mahendra K. Sunkara*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Guoda Lian
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Elizabeth C. Dickey
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
*
Corresponding author: [email protected]
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Abstract

Multiple silicon nanowires were synthesized using large gallium pools and microwave plasma. Results showed that nanowires growing out of different sized large gallium drops show little variation in diameters, suggesting that our non-traditional technique can be used to synthesize bulk amounts of monodispersed nanowires out of thin films of molten gallium.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 703: Symposia U/V – Nanophase and Nanocomposite Materials IV , 2001 , V3.10
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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