Vertically oriented nanowires(NWs)of single-crystalline wurtzite GaN have been fabricated on a-LiAlO_(2)(100)substrate coated with a Au layer,via a chemical vapor deposition process at 1000℃ using gallium and ammonia as source materials.The GaN NWs grow along the nonpolar[10]direction with steeply tapering tips,and have triangular cross-sections with widths of 50100 nm and lengths of up to several microns.The GaN NWs are formed by a vapor liquid solid growth mechanism and the tapering tips are attributed to the temperature decrease in the final stage of the synthesis process.The aligned GaN NWs show blue-yellow emission originating from defect levels,residual impurities or surface states of the GaN NWs,and have potential applications in nanotechnology.
Carbon nanotubes(CNTs)have been synthesized from Ar-CH_4 mixtures using rf-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition(rf-PECVD)at 500oC.Reduction gases such as H_2 and NH_3 were found unnecessary for carbon nanotube formation compared to thermal CVD.The relationship between the growth of CNTs and the plasma condition in PECVD has been investigated by in situ self bias measurement.Plasma conditions were controlled by changing the interelectrode distance,rf power and the applied substrate negative bias.By increasing the interelectrode distance and rf power,the spatial density of CNTs was on a rise as a result of the increase in ions density and self bias.As the applied substrate negative bias increased,the spatial density of CNTs decreased possibly due to the positive ions over bombarding effect.
Isomers and homologues of organic pollutants are hard to distinguish-especially in trace amounts-due to the similarities in their physical and chemical properties. We report here that by identifying the Raman characteristics of isomers of monochlorobiphenyls, these compounds can be recognized, even at trace levels, by using the surface-enhance Raman scattering method with silver nanorods as a substrate. When dissolved in acetone, 2-, 3-, and 4-chlorobiphenyls were detected at a concentration of 10^(-8) mol/L, at which their characteristic Raman peaks were visible. This study may provide a fast, simple, and sensitive method for the detection and recognition of organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls.
Recent researches on one-dimensional(1D) nanostructures show that segmented hybrid structures of nanotube(NT) and nanowire(NW) could provide novel building blocks for fabricating nanoscale electronics and photonics devices,and have a wide variety of other applications in barcodes,optical readout,biolo-
