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Published on: June 18, 2013
Thermodynamic and kinetic size limit of nanowire growth
Cheng-Xin Wang1, Bing Wang, Yu-Hua Yang
1State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|July 21, 2006
Abstract:
The universal models of nucleation thermodynamics and growth kinetics were established for nanowire growth upon metal-catalyst-assisted thermal chemical vapor transport on the basis of vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism. The thermodynamic and kinetic size limit of nanowire growth was deduced from the proposed model. Theoretical predictions are in agreement with experimental data.

