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Nature Nanotechnology 4, 282 - 283 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.104

Subject Category: Nanomaterials

Nanowires: Keeping track of dopants

Pavle V. Radovanovic1

  1. Pavle V. Radovanovic is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
    e-mail: pavler@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca


Semiconductor nanowires need to be doped before they can be used for many applications, but this process is not well understood. A laser-based approach has now shed new light on the doping of nanowires.

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