Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Engineering island-chain silicon nanowires via a droplet mediated Plateau-Rayleigh transformation

  • Zhaoguo Xue,
  • Mingkun Xu,
  • Yaolong Zhao,
  • Jimmy Wang,
  • Xiaofan Jiang,
  • Linwei Yu,
  • Junzhuan Wang,
  • Jun Xu,
  • Yi Shi,
  • Kunji Chen,
  • Pere Roca i Cabarrocas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12836
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The ability to program periodic morphology into nanowires affords control over photonic and electronic transport properties. Here, the authors stimulate Plateau-Rayleigh transformations in silicon nanowires through an oscillating catalyst droplet, resulting in nanowires with island-chain morphology.