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Nature Nanotechnology 2, 534 - 535 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.280
Subject Categories: Nanomaterials | Synthesis and processing
Synthesis: Regime change for nanowire growth
Jonas Johansson1
- Jonas Johansson is in the Division of Solid State Physics and the Nanometer Structure Consortium, Lund University, PO Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. e-mail: jonas.johansson@ftf.lth.se
Abstract
Gold nanoparticles are routinely used as 'seeds' to grow semiconductor nanowires and it has now been discovered that the nanowires grow faster when the gold seeds are placed closer together.
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