Failure of the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism in Au-assisted MOVPE growth of InAs nanowires
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Summary, in English
We report the temperature dependence of the Au-assisted growth of InAs nanowires in MOVPE. Extensive studies of the growth of such nanowires have attributed growth to the so-called vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism, with a liquid Au-In alloy particle. We assert here that growth is instead assisted by a solid particle and does not occur at all when the particle is a liquid. Thus the temperature range of InAs nanowire growth is limited by the melting of the Au-In alloy. Comparison with growth of InAs nanowires in the same system assisted by a layer of SiOx is used to support this conclusion.
Department/s
Publishing year
2005
Language
English
Pages
761-764
Publication/Series
Nano Letters
Volume
5
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
The American Chemical Society (ACS)
Topic
- Nano Technology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1530-6992