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1 In situ Observations of Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Silicon Nanowires |
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1 | (22) |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (2) |
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1.3 Silicon Nanowire Nucleation Kinetics |
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6 | (5) |
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1.4 Silicon Nanowire Growth Kinetics |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (9) |
2 Growth of Germanium, Silicon, and Ge-Si Heterostructured Nanowires |
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23 | (36) |
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23 | (1) |
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2.2 The VLS Growth Mechanism |
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24 | (6) |
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2.3 Size Effects in Nanowire Growth |
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30 | (6) |
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2.4 Temperature Effects on Nanowire Growth |
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36 | (2) |
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2.5 Pressure Effects on Nanowire Growth |
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38 | (2) |
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2.6 Dopant Precursor Influence on Nanowire Growth |
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40 | (2) |
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2.7 Defects during VLS Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires |
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42 | (5) |
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2.8 Ge Core/Si Shell Heterostructured Nanowires |
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47 | (3) |
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2.9 Unique Opportunities for Bandgap Engineering in Semiconductor Nanowires |
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50 | (2) |
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52 | (7) |
3 Transition Metal Silicide Nanowires: Synthetic Methods and Applications |
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59 | (7) |
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3.2 Formation of Bulk and Thin-Film Metal Silicides in Diffusion Couples |
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66 | (14) |
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67 | (1) |
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3.2.2 Diffusion, Thermodynamics, and Nucleation in Silicide Reactive Phase Formation |
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67 | (3) |
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3.2.2.1 Diffusion and the dominant diffusing species |
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3.2.2.2 Thermodynamics of silicide reactions in binary diffusion couples |
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3.2.2.3 Basics of nucleation |
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3.2.3 Kinetics of Silicide Layer Growth |
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3.2.3.1 Nucleation-controlled kinetics |
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3.2.3.2 Diffusion-controlled kinetics |
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3.2.3.3 Reaction rate-controlled kinetics |
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3.2.3.4 Bulk versus thin-film diffusion couples |
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3.2.4.1 Walser-Bene first phase rule |
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3.2.4.2 Effective heat of formation approach |
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3.2.5 Modern Developments |
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3.3 Silicide Nanowire Growth Techniques |
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3.3.1 Silicidation of Silicon Nanowires |
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81 | (3) |
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3.3.2 Delivery of Silicon to Metal Films |
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84 | (2) |
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3.3.3 Reactions of Transition Metal Sources with Silicon Substrates |
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3.3.4 Simultaneous Metal and Silicon Delivery |
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3.3.4.1 Chemical vapor transport |
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3.3.4.2 Chemical vapor deposition |
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3.3.5 Vapor-Phase Technique Comparison |
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3.4 Applications of Silicide Nanowires |
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3.4.2 Nanoscale Field Emitters |
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3.4.5 Solar Energy Conversion |
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104 | (1) |
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4 Metal Silicide Nanowires: Growth and Properties |
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121 | (1) |
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4.2 Epitaxial Growth of Silicide Nanowires on Si Substrate |
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122 | (11) |
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4.2.1 Epitaxial NiSi2 Nanowires |
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123 | (3) |
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4.2.2 Epitaxial α-FeSi2 Nanowires with Length Tunability |
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4.2.3 Growth of High-Density Titanium Silicide Nanowires in a Single Direction on a Silicon Surface |
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130 | (3) |
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4.3 Growth of Free-Standing Silicide Nanowires and Their Properties |
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4.3.1 Growth of Single-Crystal Nickel Silicide Nanowires with Excellent Electrical Transport and Field-Emission Properties |
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4.3.1.1 Well-aligned epitaxial Ni31Si12 nanowire arrays |
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134 | (5) |
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4.3.1.2 Growth of free-standing single-crystal NiSi2 nanowires |
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4.3.2 Cobalt Silicide Nanostructures: Synthesis, Electron Transport, and Field-Emission Properties |
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4.3.3 Synthesis and Properties of the Low-Resistivity TiSi2 Nanowires Grown with Metal Fluoride Precursor |
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151 | (6) |
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4.3.4 Ti5Si4 Nanobats with Excellent Field-Emission Properties |
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157 | (6) |
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4.4 Formation of Silicide/Si/Silicide Nano-Heterostructures from Si Nanowires |
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4.4.1 Controlled Growth of Atomic-Scale Si Layer with Huge Strain in the Nano-Heterostructure NiSi/Si/NiSi through Point-Contact Reaction between Nanowires of Si and Ni and Reactive Epitaxial Growth |
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4.4.2 Repeating Events of Nucleation in Epitaxial Growth of Nano CoSi2 and NiSi in Nanowires of Si |
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4.4.3 Reactions between Si Nanowires and Pt Pads |
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4.4.3.1 Formation of PtSi nanowire and PtSi/Si/PtSi nanoheterostructures |
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4.4.3.2 Epitaxial relationship of PtSi formation within a silicon nanowire |
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4.4.3.3 PtSi/i-Si/PtSi nanowire heterostructures as high-performance p-channel enhancement mode transistors |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (9) |
5 Formation of Epitaxial Silicide in Silicon Nanowires |
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5.1.1 Overview of Contacts in Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics |
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187 | (1) |
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5.1.2 Introduction to Contacts in Nanoscale Electronics |
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5.1.2.1 Transition-metal silicides |
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5.1.2.2 One-dimensional nanostructures |
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5.1.2.3 Si-based nanocircuits in Si nanowires |
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5.1.3 Introduction to Solid-State Phase Transformations |
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5.2 Introduction to Solid-State Phase Transformation in Thin Film |
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5.2.1 Thin Film Metal Silicide Formation |
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5.2.2 Examples of Silicides Formation on Si Wafers |
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5.2.2.1 Ni silicides formation |
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5.2.2.2 Co silicides formation |
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5.2.3.1 Metal-rich silicides |
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202 | (1) |
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5.3 Nanoscale Silicide Formation by Point Contact Reaction between Ni/Co and Si Nanowires |
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206 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Experimental Methods |
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207 | (1) |
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5.3.3 Point Contact Reactions between Nanowires of Si and Co |
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5.3.3.1 CoSi formation by the supply of Co nanodots into Si nanowires |
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208 | (2) |
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5.3.3.2 Epitaxial growth of CoSi2 in Si nanowires |
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210 | (4) |
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5.3.4 Point Contact Reactions between Nanowires of Si and Ni |
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214 | (6) |
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5.3.4.1 Formation of NiSi contacts within Si nanowires and NiSi/Si/NiSi nanowire heterostructures as building blocks for field-effect transistors |
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5.3.4.2 Epitaxial relationship between NiSi and Si and atomically sharp interfaces |
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5.3.4.3 Kinetic analysis of reactive epitaxial growth of nano-NiSi/Si/NiSi |
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217 | (3) |
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5.3.4.4 Fabrication of 2 nm to 200 nm highly strained Si in dimension controlled NiSi/Si/NiSi heterostructures |
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220 | (1) |
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5.3.5 Comparison of Co and Ni Silicides in Si Nanowires |
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222 | (1) |
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5.4 Homogeneous Nucleation of Nanoscale Silicide Formation |
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223 | (12) |
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5.4.2 Results and Discussions |
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224 | (10) |
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5.4.2.1 Stepwise growth and repeating events of nucleation |
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224 | (2) |
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5.4.2.2 Supply limit reaction |
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226 | (1) |
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5.4.2.3 Homogeneous nucleation: experimental observations |
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227 | (3) |
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5.4.2.4 Homogeneous nucleation: correlation between experiments and theory |
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230 | (3) |
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5.4.2.5 Homogeneous nucleation: supersaturation |
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6 Interaction between Inverse Kirkendall Effect and Kirkendall Effect in Nanoshells and Nanowires |
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245 | (80) |
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251 | (8) |
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6.2.1 Kirkendall Shift and Frenkel-Kirkendall Voiding in Bulk Samples |
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251 | (4) |
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6.2.2 Inverse Kirkendall Effect |
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6.2.3 Gibbs Thomson Effect for Vacancies (Elementary) |
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256 | (2) |
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6.2.4 Gibbs-Thomson Effect for Basic Components |
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258 | (1) |
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6.3 Instability of Hollow Nanostructures |
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259 | (33) |
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6.3.1 Shrinking of Pure Hollow Shells |
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261 | (5) |
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6.3.2 Shrinking of Chemical Compound Hollow Shells |
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266 | (7) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (5) |
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6.3.3 Instability of Binary (Solid Solution) Hollow Shells |
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6.3.3.1 Boundary conditions |
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6.3.4 Energy Barrier-Does it Really Suppress the Shrinking? |
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6.3.2 Conclusions to Section 6.3 |
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6.4 Formation of Hollow Shells |
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6.4.1 Formation of IMC Hollow Shells |
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6.4.1.1 A simple case of the competition between "Kirkendall-driven" and "curvature-driven" effects |
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292 | (2) |
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6.4.2 Formation of Binary Solution Hollow Shells |
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6.4.3 Formation of a Spherical Nano-Shell in Monte Carlo Simulation |
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6.4.4 Conclusions to Section 6.4 |
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6.5 Cross-Over from Formation to Collapse |
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6.5.1 Phenomenological Model |
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6.5.2 Monte Carlo Simulation |
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6.5.2.1 Shrinking and segregation kinetics in Monte Carlo simulation |
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316 | (1) |
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6.5.3 Conclusions to Section 6.5 |
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7 Electrical Transport Properties of Doped Silicon Nanowires |
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325 | (18) |
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325 | (3) |
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7.2 Fabrication Processes and Electrical Measurements |
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328 | (3) |
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7.2.2 Methods of Electrical Characterization |
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330 | (1) |
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7.3 Introduction of Strain into Nanowire Channels by Oxidation, and Evaluation of Stress within Individual Nanowires |
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331 | (5) |
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7.3.1 Stress Induced during Oxidation Using Pattern-Dependent Oxidation (PADOX) Theory |
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7.3.2 Three-Dimensional Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Stress Distributions in Nanowires |
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333 | (1) |
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7.3.3 Evaluation of Induced Strain inside Si Nanowires by UV Raman Spectroscopy |
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334 | (2) |
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7.4 Electrical Characterization of Nanowire FETs |
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336 | (4) |
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7.4.1 Effects of Stress on Carrier Transport in Nanowire FETs |
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336 | (1) |
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7.4.2 Electrical Characterization |
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337 | (53) |
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7.4.2.1 Potential distribution inside the nanowire channels |
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337 | (1) |
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7.4.2.2 I-V characteristics of nanowire FETs |
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338 | (2) |
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7.4.2.3 Size dependence of transconductance on nanowire size |
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340 | (1) |
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8 Silicon Nanowires and Related Nanostructures as Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes |
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8.1 Lithium-Ion Batteries and Different Types of Anodes |
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343 | (3) |
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8.2 Advantages and Challenges of Silicon Anodes |
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346 | (4) |
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8.3 Thin Film Silicon Anodes and Microsized Particles |
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350 | (4) |
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8.4 Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS)-Grown SiNWs as High-Capacity Anode |
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354 | (3) |
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8.5 Surface Characterization and Electrochemical Analysis of the Solid-Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) on Silicon Nanowires |
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357 | (4) |
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8.6 Si Core-Shell Structures for Anodes |
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361 | (6) |
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8.7 Other Si Nanostructures |
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367 | (4) |
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8.8 Solution-Processed Si Nanostructures |
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371 | (2) |
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8.9 Some Fundamental Aspects |
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373 | (7) |
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8.10 Remaining Challenges and Commercialization |
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380 | (9) |
9 Porous Silicon Nanowires |
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389 | (24) |
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389 | (1) |
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9.2 Synthesis of Porous Silicon Nanowires |
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390 | (11) |
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9.2.1 One-Step Chemical Etching |
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9.2.2 Two-Step Chemical Etching |
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9.2.2.1 Effect of [ H2O2] |
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9.2.3 Effect of Doping Levels of Silicon Wafers |
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397 | (1) |
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9.2.4 Mechanism of Formation of Porous Silicon Nanowires |
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9.3 Properties of Porous Silicon Nanowire |
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9.3.2 Electrical Properties |
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402 | (1) |
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9.3.3 Porosity of the Porous Silicon Nanowires |
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9.4 Applications of Porous Silicon Nanowire |
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9.4.2 Platform for Drug Delivery |
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9.4.3 Lithium-Ion Battery |
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10 Nanoscale Contact Engineering for Si Nanowire Devices |
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413 | (1) |
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414 | (2) |
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10.2.1 The Challenges of Modern Transistor for Contact Engineering |
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10.2.2 NW Transistor and Silicided NW Transistor |
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414 | (1) |
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10.2.3 The Properties and Applications of Metal Silicides |
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415 | (1) |
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10.3 Synthetic Approaches to Nanoscale Silicides |
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10.4 Contact Formation through Solid-State Reaction |
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10.4.1 Introduction of Silicide/Si Heterostructure by Solid-State Reaction |
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420 | (1) |
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10.4.2 The Growth of Silicide NWs by Solid-State Reaction |
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421 | (1) |
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10.4.3 Forming Silicide/Si NW Heterostructure by Solid-State Reaction |
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10.5 Silicide Growth Mechanism |
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10.5.1 The Growth Phases of Nickel Silicides in the NW Structure |
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10.5.2 Growth-Limiting Steps in the Nickel Silicide System at Nanoscale |
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425 | (2) |
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10.5.3 Nucleation-Controlled Growth or Interfacial-Limited Growth of Nickel Silicide |
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427 | (1) |
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10.5.4 Stress-Limited Growth of Nickel Silicide Phases |
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428 | (3) |
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10.5.5 Diffusion-Limited Growth of Nickel Silicide |
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431 | (2) |
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10.6 New Technical Approaches or Structures for Low-Contact Resistance FET and Short-Channel Device |
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433 | (4) |
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10.6.1 The Challenging for the Low-Device Junction Resistance |
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433 | (1) |
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10.6.2 Comparison of Junction FET, functionless FET, and Metal Heterojunction FET |
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434 | (3) |
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10.7 Electronic Properties of Silicide NWs and Silicide/Si/Silicide Heterostructures |
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10.7.1 The Resistivity of Silicide Materials |
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437 | (1) |
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10.7.2 Low-Resistivity Contacts: Ohmic Contacts |
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437 | (3) |
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10.7.3 Conductive Contacts and Beyond: Magnetic Contacts and Schottky Contacts |
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440 | (5) |
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10.7.4 High-Mobility Field-Effect Transistor and Short-Channel Device |
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445 | (1) |
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