Tao Xu

TL;DR: In this paper, a general model for the vapor-liquid-solid nanowire (NW) growth rates was presented, which accounts for adatom diffusion from the substrate and sidewalls into the Au catalyst drop as well as the Gibbs-Thomson effect of elevated chemical potential in the drop with a curved surface.

TL;DR: A combined scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscopy, and scanning tunneling microscopy study of gold-nucleated ternary InAs/InAs(1-x)Sb(x) nanowire heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy finds correlation of the morphological and structural properties of the nanowires with the amount of Sb incorporated during growth.

TL;DR: A model is developed that demonstrates a self-equilibration effect on the droplet size in self-catalyzed III-V nanowires that leads to arrays ofnanowires with a high degree of uniformity regardless of the initial conditions, while the stationary diameter can be further finely tuned by varying the spacing of the array pitch on patterned Si substrates.

TL;DR: Experimental data is presented demonstrating a narrowing effect on the length distribution of Ge nanowires synthesized by the Au-catalyzed molecular beam epitaxy on Si substrates and a theoretical model is developed capable of describing this puzzling behavior.

TL;DR: Xu et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the Stievenard problem in the context of nanotechnologies, using the Lebedev-Lebedev method.