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NANO LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 1550-1555Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl104339w
Keywords
Germanium; nanowire; solid-phase seeding; SFSS; silver; nanocrystal; defects
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- Science Foundation Ireland [07/RFP/MASF710, 08/CE/I1432]
- Higher Education Authority Program for Research in Third Level Institutions
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [07/RFP/MASF710, 08/CE/I1432] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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Metal-seeded growth of one-dimensional (1D) semiconductor nanostructures is still a very active field of research, despite the huge progress which has been made in understanding this fundamental phenomenon. Liquid growth promoters allow control of the aspect ratio, diameter, and structure of 1D crystals via external parameters, such as precursor feedstock, temperature, and operating pressure. However the transfer of crystallographic information from a catalytic nanopartide seed to a growing nanowire has not been described in the literature. Here we define the theoretical requirements for transferring defects from nanoparticle seeds to growing semiconductor nanowires and describe why Ag nanoparticles are ideal candidates for this purpose. We detail in this paper the influence of solid Ag growth seeds on the crystal quality of Ge nanowires, synthesized using a supercritical fluid growth process. Significandy, under certain reaction conditions {111} stacking faults in the Ag seeds can be directly transferred to a high percentage of < 112 >-oriented Ge nanowires, in the form of radial twins inthe semiconductor crystals. Defict transfer from nanoparticles to nanowires could open up the possibility of engineering ID nanostructures with new and tunable physical properties and morphologies.
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