silicon nanowires

A simple route to annihilate defects in silicon nanowires

A simple route to annihilate defects in silicon nanowires

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... morphology of the annealed nanowires is shown in Fig. 1. From this image, most of the nanowires can be seen to con- sist of straight and smoothly curved parts. The diameters of the nanowires are around ... of silicon with a dia- mond structure. Analysis using energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) attached to the TEM con®rmed that the nanowires have a crystalline Si core and an amorphous silicon ... Kowloon, Hong Kong Received 14 April 2000 Abstract Defects inside silicon nanowires (SiNW) could be signi®cantly reduced by annealing the nanowires at 1100° C for 6 h. High-resolution transmission electron...
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Carbon assisted synthesis of silicon nanowires

Carbon assisted synthesis of silicon nanowires

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... 2003 Abstract Carbon-assisted synthesis of silicon nanowires has been accomplished with silicon powders as well as solid sub- strates. The method involves heating an intimate mixture of silicon powder and activated ... product. These nanowires have diameters ranging from 50 to 700 nm, with several tens of microns in length. A low- magnification TEM image of the nanowires is shown in Fig. 3c. The nanowires are ... species is generated by other means. 4. Conclusions SiNWs have been obtained by reacting silicon powder or silicon substrates with carbon in an inert atmosphere. Carbothermal reduction of the silica...
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Growth kinetics of silicon nanowires by platinum assisted vapour–liquid–solid mechanism

Growth kinetics of silicon nanowires by platinum assisted vapour–liquid–solid mechanism

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... using Fig. 1. Synthesis of Si nanowires using Au and Pt as catalysts. (a) Vertically-aligned Si nanowires using Au. (b) Vertically-aligned Si nanowires using Pt. Si nanowires using Pt are longer ... research. 4. Summary Si nanowires were successfully synthesized using Au and Pt via the VLS mechanism. The growth rate of Si nanowires using Pt was 2.3 times faster than that of Si nanowires using Au. ... Si nanowires with Au was 5.20 l m/min while Pt showed a 2.28 times faster growth rate (11.86 l m/min), with a 20 sccm SiCl 4 flow rate in both cases. Fig. 3 shows the growth rate of the Si nanowires...
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Growth of amorphous silicon nanowires via a solid–liquid–solid mechanism

Growth of amorphous silicon nanowires via a solid–liquid–solid mechanism

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... Si nanowires 12 , however, such a photoluminescence from the a-SiNWs was ascribed as arising from defect centers in the amorphous SiO x layer sheathing the nanowires as well. The silicon nanowires ... 6 produced Si nanowires with VLS growth induced by a Au metal layer on a Si surface. Re- wx cently, Yu 7 reported on the production of very pure, ultrafine, freestanding silicon nanowires using an ... 2000 Ž. Chemical Physics Letters 323 2000 224–228 www.elsevier.nlrlocatercplett Growth of amorphous silicon nanowires via a solid–liquid–solid mechanism H.F. Yan a , Y.J. Xing a,b , Q.L. Hang a , D.P....
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Growth of amorphous silicon nanowires

Growth of amorphous silicon nanowires

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... crystalline state silicon nanowires with a thin oxide outer layer. Amorphous state silicon nanowires have been reported very slightly. Recently, Yan et al. [16] have prepared amor- phous silicon nanowires ... vertically aligned amorphous silicon nanowires on Au±Pd co-deposition silicon oxide substrate by thermal chemical vapor deposition using SiH 4 gas at 800°C. The diameter of silicon nanowires is in the ... the nanowires is 30 nm. The alignment of the nanowires is improved. Compared with our previously work [17], we got amorphous aligned silicon nanowires instead of the randomly distributed nanowires. ...
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Highly efficient and stable photoluminescence from silicon nanowires coated with sic

Highly efficient and stable photoluminescence from silicon nanowires coated with sic

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... and hydrogen ions react with silicon oxide to form carbon oxide and silicon car- bide. The carbon oxide gas was pumped out while silicon carbide remained on the silicon nanowire. Fig. 2b shows ... intensive studies on porous silicon related nano-technology have been stimu- lated by its potential applications in silicon- based optoelectronic devices [1±12]. One-dimensional silicon nanowire in the ... cubic silicon carbide layer has been formed just outside the silicon nanowire. The HRTEM images (Fig. 3b,c) show that a few b-SiC nanoparticles contact the core of the SiNW di- rectly for some nanowires...
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Iron catalytic growth of prism shaped single crystal silicon nanowires by chemical vapor deposition of silane

Iron catalytic growth of prism shaped single crystal silicon nanowires by chemical vapor deposition of silane

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... were employed as a catalyst for the growth of silicon nanowires (SiNWs). Transmission electron microscopy studies of the materials showed that the nanowires have a diameter of 50–70 nm and a length ... nanowires have excellent single-crys- tal characteristics. Both the CNTs and Fe play a key role in the growth process of the SiNWs. A growth mechanism was proposed for the growth of silicon nanowires ... temperature was 1100–1400 °C and the nanowires growth temperature was selected as 900–1100 °C. In general, when using pure Fe metal as a catalyst for the growth of silicon nanowires, almost all methods...
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Morphology and growth mechanism study of self assembled silicon nanowires synthesized by thermal evaporation

Morphology and growth mechanism study of self assembled silicon nanowires synthesized by thermal evaporation

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... methods is the formation of a sucient amount of silicon atoms and/or silicon oxide clusters in gas phase from the target powders of silicon or silicon oxide by laser ablation or high temperature ... vapor-phase silicon atoms and/or sili- con oxide clusters. When the Ni(Fe)Si 2 droplet reaches supersaturation after dissolving sucient silicon atoms from the gas phase, precipitation of silicon nanowires ... silicon bulbs are found at the tips of the SiNWs sub-branches. Z. Zhang et al. / Chemical Physics Letters 337 (2001) 18±24 21 Morphology and growth mechanism study of self-assembled silicon nanowires...
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Optical spectroscopy of silicon nanowires

Optical spectroscopy of silicon nanowires

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... Raman scattering spectra of the SiNWs and crystal silicon. A very sharp and Fig. 1. A typical SEM image of the morphology of aligned silicon nanowires of uniform diameter distribution on a silica substrate. Fig. ... results on the silica nanowires [5] that was ascribed to originate from the oxygen vacancies, while the band peaked at 525 nm is close to the results reported for as-grown silicon nanowires [6]. According ... crystalline silicon, and D is the size of crystal. Eq. (1) was used to fit the Raman spectra. The continuous line in Fig. 3 shows the best-fit result, and the average crystal size of nanowires D...
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Oriented silicon nanowires on silicon substrates from oxide assisted growth and gold catalysts

Oriented silicon nanowires on silicon substrates from oxide assisted growth and gold catalysts

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... Oriented silicon nanowires on silicon substrates from oxide-assisted growth and gold catalysts Yuan Yao a , Fanghua ... 2005 Available online 25 March 2005 Abstract High-density, oriented silicon nanowires (SiNWs) array were fabricated on (0 0 1) silicon substrates by the oxide-assisted growth method assisted with ... many unique properties not found in the bulk materials. Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are a particularly important 1D nanomaterial because silicon is most widely used in electronic indus- try. Besides...
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Polymer assisted synthesis of aligned amorphous silicon nanowires and their core shell structures with au nanoparticles

Polymer assisted synthesis of aligned amorphous silicon nanowires and their core shell structures with au nanoparticles

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... Chemical Physics Letters 397 (2004) 128–132 Polymer-assisted synthesis of aligned amorphous silicon nanowires and their core/shell structures with Au nanoparticles Xing-bin Yan a,b , Tao Xu a , ... Conse- quently, a great deal of effort has been made in fabricat- ing Si-based nanostructures, especially silicon nanowires (SiNWs). Upto now, several methods have been em- ployed to produce SiNWs, including ... characteristic of a silicon structure, corresponding to the second-order transverse acoustic phonon mode (2TA), and the first-order transverse optical phonon mode (TO) of silicon, respectively....
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Silicon nanowires as chemical sensors

Silicon nanowires as chemical sensors

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... interactions between gas molecules and silicon nanowires, as well as the effect of silicon oxide sheath on the sensitivity and the mechanisms of gas sensing with silicon nanowires are discussed. Ó 2003 ... sensitivity of silicon nanowires bundles has been studied. Upon exposure to ammonia gas and water vapor, the electrical resistance of the HF-etched relative to non-etched silicon nanowires sample ... phenomenon serves as the basis for a new kind of sensor based on silicon nanowires. The sensor, made by a bundle of etched silicon nanowires, is simple and exhibits a fast response, high sensitivity...
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Silicon nanowires grown on si(1 0 0) substrates via thermal reactions with carbon nanoparticles

Silicon nanowires grown on si(1 0 0) substrates via thermal reactions with carbon nanoparticles

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... amount of SiO 2 and C is S. Botti et al. / Chemical Physics Letters 371 (2003) 394–400 395 Silicon nanowires grown on Si(1 0 0) substrates via thermal reactions with carbon nanoparticles S. Botti a, * , ... lm with strongly reduced SiO 2 content with silicon wires of diameter ranging between 30 and 50 nm decorating the pyramid walls. The nucleation of the Si nanowires occurs via reduction of the native ... used in similar techniques. Ó 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Silicon nanowires with diameter of several tens of nanometers and length of tens of micrometers, exhibit...
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Temperature dependence of morphology and diameter of silicon nanowires synthesized by laser ablation

Temperature dependence of morphology and diameter of silicon nanowires synthesized by laser ablation

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 15:09
... corresponding correlation between morphology and diameter of nanowires. Nanowires of larger diameter (100–150 nm) were inclined to be octopus-shaped, while nanowires of smaller diameter (10–15 nm) were inclined ... the nanowires in this zone is vapor–liquid–solid (VLS) growth [18]. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) analysis indicated that the nanoparticles at the tips of the nanowires only contained silicon ... the silicon nanoparticle chains. They proposed that nucleation and growth occurring alternatively re- sulted in the formation of chains of silicon nano- particles. The formation of the kinks of silicon nanoparticle...
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Temperature dependence of the quality of silicon nanowires produced over a titania supported gold catalyt

Temperature dependence of the quality of silicon nanowires produced over a titania supported gold catalyt

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... temperature is 500 °C. Silicon nanowires produced at this temperature have a well-crystal- lized silicon core with a very thin amorphous sili- con dioxide outer layer. The length of the nanowires is in ... (2003) 377–383 and silicon tetrachloride (SiCl 4 ). Westwater et al. [7,8] have reported that the use of silane as Si source to prepare silicon nanowires via CVD yields much thinner nanowires than ... silicon nanowires produced at four different temperatures. Raman spectra of sil- icon wafer and of the fresh Au/TiO 2 catalyst are also included for comparison. Lower panel: Raman spectra of silicon...
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