Synthesis of amorphous SiOx nanowires and nanofibers by thermal evaporation with gold as catalyst

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

The growths of SiOx nanostructures (nanowires and nanofibers) on Au-coated n-type-Silicon (100) substrate via thermal evaporation were studied. Based on SVLS growth mechanism, the obtained diameter of the nanowires varies between 13 nm and about 243 nm and the diameter of nanofibers found to be around 8 nm to 30 nm. The SiOx nanowires are 194 nm to several microns in length, but the length of SiOx nanofibers are 50 nm to several microns. It was found that the carbo-thermal reactions played an important role to accomplish the growth.

Keywords

Silicon oxide nanofibers, Silicon oxide nanowires, Thermal evaporation

Publication Title

Malaysian Journal of Science

ISSN

1394-3065

Divisions

PHYSICS

Volume

28

Issue

3

Publisher

Faculty of Science, University of Malaya

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