PMID- 25852309
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150408
LR  - 20200929
IS  - 1931-7573 (Print)
IS  - 1556-276X (Electronic)
IS  - 1556-276X (Linking)
VI  - 10
DP  - 2015
TI  - Morphological engineering of self-assembled nanostructures at nanoscale on 
      faceted GaAs nanowires by droplet epitaxy.
PG  - 11
LID - 10.1186/s11671-014-0717-y [doi]
LID - 11
AB  - Fabrication of advanced artificial nanomaterials is a long-term pursuit to 
      fulfill the promises of nanomaterials and it is of utter importance to manipulate 
      materials at nanoscale to meet urgent demands of nanostructures with designed 
      properties. Herein, we demonstrate the morphological tailoring of self-assembled 
      nanostructures on faceted GaAs nanowires (NWs). The NWs are deposited on 
      different kinds of substrates. Triangular and hexagonal prism morphologies are 
      obtained, and their corresponding 110 sidewalls act as platforms for the 
      nucleation of gallium droplets (GDs). We demonstrate that the morphologies of the 
      nanostructures depend not only on the annealing conditions but also on the 
      morphologies of the NWs' sidewalls. Here, we achieve morphological engineering in 
      the form of novel quantum dots (QDs), 'square' quantum rings (QRs), 'rectangular' 
      QRs, 3D QRs, crescent-shaped QRs, and nano-antidots. The evolution mechanisms for 
      the peculiar morphologies of both NWs and nanostructures are modeled and 
      discussed in detail. This work shows the potential of combining nano-structural 
      engineering with NWs to achieve multifunctional properties and applications.
FAU - Zha, Guo-Wei
AU  - Zha GW
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
FAU - Zhang, Li-Chun
AU  - Zhang LC
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
FAU - Yu, Ying
AU  - Yu Y
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
FAU - Xu, Jian-Xing
AU  - Xu JX
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
FAU - Wei, Si-Hang
AU  - Wei SH
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
FAU - Shang, Xiang-Jun
AU  - Shang XJ
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
FAU - Ni, Hai-Qiao
AU  - Ni HQ
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
FAU - Niu, Zhi-Chuan
AU  - Niu ZC
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of 
      Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083 China 
      ; Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, 
      University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150127
PL  - United States
TA  - Nanoscale Res Lett
JT  - Nanoscale research letters
JID - 101279750
PMC - PMC4384706
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Droplet epitaxy
OT  - Morphology
OT  - Nanostructures
OT  - Nanowires
EDAT- 2015/04/09 06:00
MHDA- 2015/04/09 06:01
PMCR- 2015/01/27
CRDT- 2015/04/09 06:00
PHST- 2014/11/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/12/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/04/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/04/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/04/09 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2015/01/27 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 717 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s11671-014-0717-y [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Nanoscale Res Lett. 2015 Jan 27;10:11. doi: 10.1186/s11671-014-0717-y. 
      eCollection 2015.