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Self-Assembled Low-Resistivity NiSi Nanowire Arrays on Epitaxial Si0.7Ge0.3 on (001)Si

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Self-assembled low-resistivity NiSi nanowire arrays have been grown on relaxed epitaxial Si0.7Ge0.3 on (001)Si. The formation of the one-dimensional ordered structure is attributed to the nucleation of NiSi nanodots on the surface undulations induced by step bunching on the surface of SiGe film owing to the miscut of the wafers from normal to the (001)Si direction. Furthermore, the nanodots were connected along individual arrays and turned into nanowires with increasing amount of Ni and a-Si. Since the periodicity of surface bunching can be tuned with appropriate vicinality and misfit, the undulated templates promise to facilitate the growth of ordered, catalyst-free NiSi nanowires with selected periodicity and size for utilization in high-speed Si-Ge nanodevices.

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Advances in Science and Technology (Volume 51)

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42-47

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.51.42

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October 2006

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Wen Wei Wu, Lih Juann Chen

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NiSi Nanowires, Self-Assembly, Si1-xGex/Si Heterostructures, Step Bunching

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