Abstract
Self-organised tungsten nanowire arrays were produced by a recently established templateless method. Control of spatial features such as diameter and spacing of nanowires was successfully
achieved by changing the growth rate during directional solidification. An increase in the growth rate from 1.4 μm s-1 to 55.5 μm s-1 led to a decrease in the nanowire diameter from 560 to 290 nm and the spacing from 3.5 μm to 1.7 μm. The scaling laws of the variation in nanowire diameter
and spacing with growth rate are quantitatively determined. Distribution of both, the diameter and the spacing around the average value were quite narrow. Potential applications of such self-organised W nanowire arrays in nanotechnology
are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 455-461 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Physica Status Solidi A: Applications and Materials Science |
| Volume | 206 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Fields of science
- 104005 Electrochemistry
- 104006 Solid state chemistry
- 104014 Surface chemistry
- 104017 Physical chemistry
- 105113 Crystallography
- 105116 Mineralogy
- 503013 Subject didactics of natural sciences
- 204 Chemical Process Engineering
- 204001 Inorganic chemical technology
- 205016 Materials testing
- 210006 Nanotechnology
- 211104 Metallurgy
JKU Focus areas
- Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)