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Natural occurrence of the diamond hexagonal structure in silicon nanowires grown by a plasma-assisted vapour-liquid-solid method

Authors :
Lianbo Yu
Erik Johnson
Jean-Luc Maurice
Wanghua Chen
Ileana Florea
J. Tang
P. Roca i Cabarrocas
Frédéric Fossard
Martin Foldyna
Laboratoire de physique des interfaces et des couches minces [Palaiseau] (LPICM)
École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Laboratoire d'étude des microstructures [Châtillon] (LEM - ONERA - CNRS)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-ONERA
School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science [Beijing] (EECS)
Peking University [Beijing]
Source :
Nanoscale, Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017, 9 (24), pp.8113-8118. ⟨10.1039/c7nr01299c⟩
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

International audience; Silicon nanowires have been grown by a plasma-assisted vapour–liquid–solid method using tin as the catalyst. Transmission electron microscopy in the [1-210] zone axis shows that the diamond hexagonal (P63/mmc) crystal structure is present in several nanowires. This is the first unambiguous proof of the natural occurrence of this metastable phase to our knowledge.

Details

ISSN :
20403372 and 20403364
Volume :
9
Issue :
24
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nanoscale
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....05514fd399160bdd10bafb70b27faf7c
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr01299c⟩