Self-assembled nanowires on semiconductor surfaces

JHG Owen, K Miki, DR Bowler - Journal of materials science, 2006 - Springer
A number of different families of nanowires which self-assemble on semiconductor surfaces
have been identified in recent years. They are particularly interesting from the standpoint of …

Dipole-directed assembly of lines of 1, 5-dichloropentane on silicon substrates by displacement of surface charge

KR Harikumar, T Lim, IR McNAB, JC Polanyi… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
One-dimensional nanostructures at silicon surfaces have potential applications in nanoscale
devices. Here we propose a mechanism of dipole-directed assembly for the growth of lines …

Robust one-dimensional metallic band structure of silicide nanowires

HW Yeom, YK Kim, EY Lee, KD Ryang, PG Kang - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
Angle-resolved photoemission (ARP) is employed to investigate the electronic structure of
an extremely anisotropic form of nanocrystals—GdSi 2-x nanowires on Si (100). Using a …

Boron nitride monolayer growth on vicinal Ni (1 1 1) surfaces systematically studied with a curved crystal

L Fernández, AA Makarova, C Laubschat… - 2D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The structural and electronic properties of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) grown on stepped
Ni surfaces are systematically investigated using a cylindrical Ni crystal as a tunable …

Atomic size effects studied by transport in single silicide nanowires

I Miccoli, F Edler, H Pfnür, S Appelfeller, M Dähne… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Ultrathin metallic silicide nanowires with extremely high aspect ratios can be easily grown,
eg, by deposition of rare earth elements on semiconducting surfaces. These wires play a …

An STM study of the Si (0 0 1)(2× 7)–Gd, Dy surface

BZ Liu, J Nogami - Surface science, 2003 - Elsevier
Both Gd and Dy induce two different reconstructions of the Si (001) surface with 2× 4 and 2×
7 unit cells. Detailed examination by scanning tunneling microscopy shows that the structure …

Self-assembled endotaxial α-FeSi2 nanowires with length tunability mediated by a thin nitride layer on (001) Si

SY Chen, HC Chen, LJ Chen - Applied physics letters, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Endotaxial growth of self-assembled α-Fe Si 2 nanowires (NWs) on (100) Si has been
achieved by combining reactive deposition epitaxy and nitride-mediated epitaxy. The length …

Symmetry in strain engineering of nanomembranes: making new strained materials

DM Paskiewicz, SA Scott, DE Savage, GK Celler… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Strain in a material changes the lattice constant and thereby creates a material with new
properties relative to the unstrained, but chemically identical, material. The ability to alter the …

Tb silicide nanowire growth on planar and vicinal Si (001) surfaces

S Appelfeller, S Kuls, M Dähne - Surface Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction were used to investigate
the growth of Tb silicide nanowires on Si (001) and its dependence on Tb coverage …

Self-organization of mesoscopically ordered parallel Gd-silicide nanowire arrays on a Si (110)-16× 2 surface: A massively parallel active architecture

IH Hong, YF Tsai, TM Chen - Applied Physics Letters, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
A perfect self-organization of large-area, highly regular parallel arrays, consisting of
uniformly spaced, epitaxial Gd-silicide nanowires with an identical width and a typical …