Nature Communications (Jun 2022)
Catalyst-free synthesis of sub-5 nm silicon nanowire arrays with massive lattice contraction and wide bandgap
- Sen Gao,
- Sanghyun Hong,
- Soohyung Park,
- Hyun Young Jung,
- Wentao Liang,
- Yonghee Lee,
- Chi Won Ahn,
- Ji Young Byun,
- Juyeon Seo,
- Myung Gwan Hahm,
- Hyehee Kim,
- Kiwoong Kim,
- Yeonjin Yi,
- Hailong Wang,
- Moneesh Upmanyu,
- Sung-Goo Lee,
- Yoshikazu Homma,
- Humberto Terrones,
- Yung Joon Jung
Affiliations
- Sen Gao
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
- Sanghyun Hong
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
- Soohyung Park
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Hyun Young Jung
- Department of Energy Engineering, Gyeongsang National University
- Wentao Liang
- Kostas Advanced Nano-Characterization Facility, Kostas Research Institute, Northeastern University
- Yonghee Lee
- National Nano Fab Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Chi Won Ahn
- National Nano Fab Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Ji Young Byun
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Juyeon Seo
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
- Myung Gwan Hahm
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Inha University
- Hyehee Kim
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
- Kiwoong Kim
- Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University
- Yeonjin Yi
- Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University
- Hailong Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China
- Moneesh Upmanyu
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
- Sung-Goo Lee
- Advanced Materials Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
- Yoshikazu Homma
- Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science
- Humberto Terrones
- Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Yung Joon Jung
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31174-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The preparation of quantum silicon nanowires, materials with potential application in high-performance nanodevices, is challenging. Here, the authors synthesize vertically aligned sub-5 nm silicon nanowires via a vapor phase silicon etching process; the resulting material features unusual lattice reduction and significant phonon and electronic confinement effects.