Silicon nanowires could form the building-blocks of future electronic devices, but under ultra-clean conditions, regulating their growth is difficult. Is the strictly controlled environment the problem?
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Visible and infrared emission from Si/Ge nanowires synthesized by metal-assisted wet etching
Nanoscale Research Letters Open Access 12 February 2014
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 51 print issues and online access
$199.00 per year
only $3.90 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
Notes
*This article and the paper1 concerned were published online on 29 January 2006.
References
Hannon, J. B., Kodambaka, S., Ross, F. M. & Tromp, R. M. Nature 440, 69–71 (2006).
Morales, A. M. & Lieber, C. M. Science 279, 208–211 (1998).
Wagner, R. S. & Ellis, W. C. Appl. Phys. Lett. 4, 89–90 (1964).
Givargizov, E. I. Highly Anisotropic Crystals (Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987).
Haraguchi, K. et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 60, 745–747 (1992).
Ostwald, W. Z. Phys. Chem. 34, 495–503 (1900).
Wagner, C. Z. Elektrochem. 65, 581–591 (1961).
Lifschitz, I. M. & Slyozov, V. V. J. Phys. Chem. Solids 19, 35–50 (1961).
Schubert, L. et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 4968–4970 (2004).
Tan, T. Y. & Tice, W. Phil. Mag. 34, 615–631 (1976).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Gösele, U. How clean is too clean?. Nature 440, 34–35 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440034a
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/440034a
This article is cited by
-
Visible and infrared emission from Si/Ge nanowires synthesized by metal-assisted wet etching
Nanoscale Research Letters (2014)
-
Formation of Luminescent Silicon Nanowires and Porous Silicon by Metal-Assisted Electroless Etching
Journal of Electronic Materials (2014)
