Colossal injection of catalyst atoms into silicon nanowires

Oussama Moutanabbir (), Dieter Isheim, Horst Blumtritt, Stephan Senz, Eckhard Pippel and David N. Seidman
Additional contact information
Oussama Moutanabbir: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, CP 6079, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3A7, Canada
Dieter Isheim: and Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT), Northwestern University
Horst Blumtritt: Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
Stephan Senz: Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
Eckhard Pippel: Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
David N. Seidman: and Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT), Northwestern University

Nature, 2013, vol. 496, issue 7443, 78-82

Abstract: Aluminium catalyst is trapped during growth of a silicon nanowire from vapour phase at concentrations vastly beyond equilibrium solid solubility, but is homogeneously distributed as atoms and not found as clusters or precipitates; this is a potential route to tailoring the composition and properties of nanowires.

Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11999 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:496:y:2013:i:7443:d:10.1038_nature11999

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature11999

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().