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Published on: November 11, 2013
Germanium telluride nanowires and nanohelices with memory-switching behavior
1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Abstract:
We report the synthesis of single-crystalline GeTe nanowires (NWs) and nanohelices (NHs) using a vapor transport method assisted by metal catalysts. The NWs have typical diameters of 65 +/- 20 nm and lengths reaching up to 50 mum, while NHs have an average helix diameter of 135 +/- 30 nm, with widely varying pitches. Electron microscopy and diffraction measurements show that these NWs and NHs are single crystalline and exhibit a rhombohedral structure. The devices incorporating individual GeTe NWs exhibit nonvolatile resistance changes associated with voltage-driven crystalline-amorphous transitions, suggesting that these NWs can be the basis of an electrically driven nonvolatile memory.
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