Sentences with phrase «grow nanowires»

The researchers installed the chamber in the research light source PETRA III of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) and took X-ray pictures every minute to determine the structure and diameter of the growing nanowires.

At one - minute intervals the scientists took X-ray pictures, which allowed both the internal structure and the diameter of the growing nanowires to be simultaneously determined.

Finally, they measured the fully grown nanowires with an electron microscope.

These catalysts, which are precursors to growing the nanowires, have given scientists more options than ever in turning the color of light - emitting nanowires.

Not exact matches

Whereas the fine nanowires initially crystallise in a hexagonal, so - called wurtzite structure, this behaviour changes after some time and the wires adopt a cubic zinc blende structure as they continue to grow.

Using epitaxy, the semiconductor nanowires can then be grown atom for atom out of these holes.»

The image, captured by a scanning electron microscope, was taken as the nanowires grew on silicon at room temperature.

The nanowires are grown from a specially etched substrate such that they form exactly the desired network which they then expose to a stream of aluminium particles, creating layers of aluminium, a superconductor, on specific spots on the wires — the contacts where the Majorana particles emerge.

Scanning electron microscope image of growing InP nanowires thereby forming multiple junctions.

Nanowires grew from the MEMS to lengths of 5 to 10 micrometers all anchored at one end to the MEMS bridges, the team reports in the 30 June issue of Applied Physics Letters.

In their approach, they discovered that germanium nanowires are grown by the reduction of germanium oxide particles and subsequent self - catalytic growth during the thermal decomposition of natural gas, and simultaneously, carbon sheath layers are uniformly coated on the nanowire surface.

In the information technology world, nanoprinting could be used to achieve the controlled placement of catalytic seed particles for growing semiconducting nanowires.

The researchers use a template so all the nanowires grow perpendicular to the glass» surface and to the same height.

First, titanium dioxide nanowires are grown on fluorine doped tin oxide coated glass.

The nanowires were grown on an indium tin oxide substrate.

The nanowire diameter can be controlled by the solution temperature: wires grown at room temperature have an average diameter of 35 nanometers, whereas those grown at 95 °C have an average diameter of 100 nanometers.

They first identified how different nanostructure patterns grow on nanowires by conducting energy calculations in a theoretical analysis before analyzing these patterns by performing numerical simulations.

The UMass Amherst teams knew from previous studies that Geobacter grow electrically conductive filaments known as microbial nanowires, which can transport electrons outside the cell to make electrical connections with minerals, electrodes or other cells.

Moreover, there is no simple way to grow different types of nanowires in the same environment and on the same substrate.

For instance, certain substrates on which the nanowires grow create conditions so that the nanowire growth orientation is dictated by the substrate's underlying crystal structure.

Unique patterns made from tiny, randomly scattered silver nanowires have been created by a group of researchers from South Korea in an attempt to authenticate goods and tackle the growing problem of counterfeiting.

Researchers have also created a whole kit of proteins that might be used someday to build nanowires that carry electrical signals, cages that contain and safely deliver drugs, or latticework that acts a mat on which to grow new cells to heal wounds.

[1] M.Zervos et al., Broad compositional tunability of indium tin oxide nanowires grown by the vapor liquid solid mechanism», Applied Physics Letters Materials, 2, p. 056104 (2014).