Rocking chair defect generation in nanowire growth

• Main Authors: Picraux, S. T., Dayeh, Shadi A., Liu, Xiao Hua, Dai, Xing, Huang, Jian Yu, Soci, Cesare
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95116; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9172
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report the observation of a different defect generation phenomenon in layer-by-layer crystal growth. Steps at a nanowire liquid-solid growth interface, resulting from edge nucleated defects, are found to cause a gradual multiplication of stacking faults in the regions bounded by two edge defects....