Earlier evidence for the quasiparticles was found in one -
dimensional nanowires, in which a Majorana fermion sat motionless at each end of the wire, like a particle bound to a particular spot within a material.
Wong's group has fashioned the metals into ultrathin one -
dimensional nanowires (roughly two nanometers in diameter).
In an article published online March 10 in the journal Advanced Materials, Dr. Moon Kim and his colleagues describe a material that, when heated to about 450 degrees Celsius, transforms from an atomically thin, two - dimensional sheet into an array of one -
dimensional nanowires, each just a few atoms wide.
Not exact matches
A device that slides magnetic bits back and forth along
nanowire «racetracks» could pack data in a three -
dimensional microchip and may replace nearly all forms of conventional data storage
The process clears out nearly 100 percent of
nanowires, nanosheets, nanotubes and other one - and two -
dimensional nanomaterials.
In essence, it proves that electrons on a one -
dimensional semiconducting
nanowire will have a quantum spin opposite to its momentum in a finite magnetic field.
Srinivasan's team designed two - and three -
dimensional (2D and 3D) models of
nanowires with a square, hexagonal or octagonal core surrounded by various shell configurations.
The breakthrough from physicists at the University of Sussex has been to combine silver
nanowires with graphene — a two
dimensional carbon material.
Prof. Fernando Patolsky; High - Capacity, Three -
Dimensional Silicon
Nanowire (SiNW) Anode for Lithium - Ion Batteries