Nanowire networks: Small 16/2009

✍ Scribed by Ie-Hong Hong; Shang-Chieh Yen; Fu-Shiang Lin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 363 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1613-6810
• DOI: 10.1002/smll.200990083

✦ Synopsis

A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a well-ordered Au silicide nanowire network self-organized on a 16؋2 superstructure of a Si(110) surface by postdeposition annealing at 1100 K is shown. This nanomesh consists of two crossed arrays of parallel-aligned Au silicide nanowires with distinctly different sizes and conductivities. The ability to form a perfectly ordered 2D nanomesh on a Si(110) nanotemplate represents a step towards the nanofabrication of integrated 2D crossbar nanocircuits in a very straightforward, fast, cost-effective, and high-throughput process.

Nanowire networks