Nano letters
Plasma-Driven Solid-Liquid Dynamics in Cu-Sn Catalysts and Nucleation of Silicon Nanowires Revealed by Environmental TEM.
Weixi Wang, Eric Ngo, Pavel Bulkin, Martin Foldyna, Pere Roca I Cabarrocas, Erik V Johnson, Didier Pribat, Zhengyu Zhang, Jean-Luc Maurice
Published: 202510.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03612
Abstract
We employ environmental TEM to observe phase transitions driven by plasma radicals, in Cu-Sn catalysts for silicon nanowire (SiNW) growth. Previously unrecognized solid-liquid dynamics enables the stable growth of ultrathin (∼7 nm) SiNWs with alterna…
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