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Published on: December 20, 2012
Vapour-liquid-solid growth of ternary Bi2Se2Te nanowires
Piet Schönherr, Liam J Collins-McIntyre, Shilei Zhang
1Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK. thorsten.hesjedal@physics.ox.ac.uk.
Abstract:
: High-density growth of single-crystalline Bi2Se2Te nanowires was achieved via the vapour-liquid-solid process. The stoichiometry of samples grown at various substrate temperatures is precisely determined based on energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and Raman spectroscopy on individual nanowires. We discuss the growth mechanism and present insights into the catalyst-precursor interaction.

