Entrapment of gold catalyst in silicon/silicon-oxide nanowires

• Main Authors: Li, Feng Ji, Zhang, Sam, Lee, Jyh-Wei, Zhao, Dongliang
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Nanotechnology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104318; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24648
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Metal catalyst sometimes is entrapped in crystalline silicon (Si)/amorphous Si-oxide nanowires. Till now, however, the entrapping mechanism is still unclear. In this work, Si/Si-oxide nanowires were grown via thermal annealing of a Si wafer coated with a 10 nm thick layer of gold (Au) which acts as...