- The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Optical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanographene
- Defects and disorder in carbon nanotubes
- Roles of shape and space in electronic properties of carbon nanomaterials
- Identification and separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes
- Size-dependent phase transitions and phase reversal at the nanoscale
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy of nanostructures
- Harmonic detection of resonance methods for micro- and nanocantilevers: Theory and selected applications
- Microspectroscopy as a tool to discriminate nanomolecular cellular alterations in biomedical research
- Holographic laser processing for three-dimensional photonic lattices
- Nanoanalysis of materials using near-field Raman spectroscopy
- Scanning SQUID microscope study of vortex states and phases in superconducting mesoscopic dots, antidots, and other structures
- New phenomena in the nanospace of single-wall carbon nanotubes
- Thermopower of low-dimensional structures: The effect of electron–phonon coupling
- ZnO wide-bandgap semiconductor nanostructures: Growth, characterization and applications
- Selective self-assembly of semi-metal straight and branched nanorods on inert substrates
- Nanostructured crystals: An unprecedented class of hybrid semiconductors exhibiting structure-induced quantum confinement effect and systematically tunable properties
- <b>Nanoscale Ge<sub>1</sub></b><sub>−<i>x</i></sub><b>Mn<i><sub>x</sub></i>Te ferromagnetic semiconductors</b>
- Synthesis, characterization and environmental applications of nanocrystalline zeolites
- Unusual properties of nanoscale ferroelectrics
- Magnetic properties of nanoparticles
- Structural, electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of carbon-fullerene-based polymers
- Magnetic nanowires: Fabrication and characterization
- Iron-oxide nanostructures with emphasis on nanowires
- DNA-based self-assembly of nanostructures
- Properties and potential of protein–DNA conjugates for analytic applications
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article discusses the selective self-assembly of semi-metal straight and branched nanorods on inert substrates. In particular, it describes antimony (Sb) nanorods and bismuth (Bi) nanobelts on inert substrates by physical vapor deposition in vacuum without using any catalyst and nanoscale template. After describing the experimental and drift correction procedures, the article reviews previous studies of semi-metal growth on inert substrates. It then measures the surface morphology and atomic structures of self-assembled Sb nanorods and Bi nanobelts using an in-situ scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV). Based on these STM data, a mechanism for the self-assembly of straight and branched semi-metal nanorods is proposed.
Keywords: self-assembly, inert substrates, antimony, bismuth, nanobelts, physical vapor deposition, semi-metal growth, surface morphology, atomic structure, semi-metal nanorods
Department of Physics, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore
Department of Physics, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore
Department of Physics, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore
Department of Physics, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore
Department of Physics, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore
Department of Physics, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore
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- The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Optical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanographene
- Defects and disorder in carbon nanotubes
- Roles of shape and space in electronic properties of carbon nanomaterials
- Identification and separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes
- Size-dependent phase transitions and phase reversal at the nanoscale
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy of nanostructures
- Harmonic detection of resonance methods for micro- and nanocantilevers: Theory and selected applications
- Microspectroscopy as a tool to discriminate nanomolecular cellular alterations in biomedical research
- Holographic laser processing for three-dimensional photonic lattices
- Nanoanalysis of materials using near-field Raman spectroscopy
- Scanning SQUID microscope study of vortex states and phases in superconducting mesoscopic dots, antidots, and other structures
- New phenomena in the nanospace of single-wall carbon nanotubes
- Thermopower of low-dimensional structures: The effect of electron–phonon coupling
- ZnO wide-bandgap semiconductor nanostructures: Growth, characterization and applications
- Selective self-assembly of semi-metal straight and branched nanorods on inert substrates
- Nanostructured crystals: An unprecedented class of hybrid semiconductors exhibiting structure-induced quantum confinement effect and systematically tunable properties
- <b>Nanoscale Ge<sub>1</sub></b><sub>−<i>x</i></sub><b>Mn<i><sub>x</sub></i>Te ferromagnetic semiconductors</b>
- Synthesis, characterization and environmental applications of nanocrystalline zeolites
- Unusual properties of nanoscale ferroelectrics
- Magnetic properties of nanoparticles
- Structural, electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of carbon-fullerene-based polymers
- Magnetic nanowires: Fabrication and characterization
- Iron-oxide nanostructures with emphasis on nanowires
- DNA-based self-assembly of nanostructures
- Properties and potential of protein–DNA conjugates for analytic applications
- Subject Index
