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Article: Control Over Nanowires "Growth".
- Article from:
- Energy Optimization News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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A significant breakthrough in the development of the highly prized semiconductor, gallium nitride, as a building block for nanotechnology, has been achieved by a team of scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley. For the first time ever, the researchers have been able control the direction in which a gallium nitride nanowire grows. Growth direction is critical to determining the wire's electrical and thermal conductivity and other important properties.
"Our results will come as a surprise to those who have said that growth direction can't be controlled, that ...