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Nanogrids and Beehive-Like Nanostructures Formed by Plasma Etching the Self-Organized SiGe Islands.
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PMID:  20730116     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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A lithography-free method for fabricating the nanogrids and quasi-beehive nanostructures on Si substrates is developed. It combines sequential treatments of thermal annealing with reactive ion etching (RIE) on SiGe thin films grown on (100)-Si substrates. The SiGe thin films deposited by ultrahigh vacuum chemical vapor deposition form self-assembled nanoislands via the strain-induced surface roughening (Asaro-Tiller-Grinfeld instability) during thermal annealing, which, in turn, serve as patterned sacrifice regions for subsequent RIE process carried out for fabricating nanogrids and beehive-like nanostructures on Si substrates. The scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy observations confirmed that the resultant pattern of the obtained structures can be manipulated by tuning the treatment conditions, suggesting an interesting alternative route of producing self-organized nanostructures.
Authors:
Yuan-Ming Chang; Sheng-Rui Jian; Jenh-Yih Juang
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2010-6-8
Journal Detail:
Title:  Nanoscale research letters     Volume:  5     ISSN:  1556-276X     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2010  
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Created Date:  2010-8-23     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  101279750     Medline TA:  Nanoscale Res Lett     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  1456-1463     Citation Subset:  -    
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