Nanowire in a sentence

As a nanowire shrinks in size, the surface atoms become more numerous compared to the atoms within the nanowire, and edge effects become more important.

The picture on the right shows a single atomic layer growth on the tip of CuO nanowire, observed by in situ TEM microscopy during the non-catalytic synthesis of nanowire.

The unbonded atoms are often a source of defects within the nanowire, and may cause the nanowire to conduct electricity more poorly than the bulk material.

The vast majority of nanowire-formation mechanisms are explained through the use of catalytic nanoparticles, which drive the nanowire growth and are either added intentionally or generated during the growth.

Photograph of nanowire network (left), network's pathways changing and strengthening (right).

This nanowire network, which contains a large number of intricately interacting synaptic elements, forms a “neuromorphic network”.

What actually happens here is that the interference pattern between two laser pulses excites a collective electron oscillation "quasiparticle" known as a plasmon polariton in the nanowire.

A control gate wrapped around a silicon nanowire can control the passage of electrons without the use of junctions or doping.

As more of the semiconductor solute is added from the supercritical phase (due to a concentration gradient), a solid crystallite precipitates, and a nanowire grows uniaxially from the nanocrystal seed.

Here is a simulation of such a nanowire.

More recently, after microscopy advancement, the nanowire growth driven by screw dislocations citation citation or twin boundaries citation were demonstrated.

Nanowire production uses several common laboratory techniques, including suspension, electrochemical deposition, vapor deposition, and VLS growth.

Nanowire welds were also demonstrated between gold and silver, and silver nanowires (with diameters ~5–15 nm) at near room temperature, indicating that this technique may be generally applicable for ultrathin metallic nanowires.

One approach of overcoming this limitation employs fragmentation of the antibody-capturing units and control over surface receptor density, allowing more intimate binding to the nanowire of the target protein.

Several physical reasons predict that the conductivity of a nanowire will be much less than that of the corresponding bulk material.

Silicon nanowires are usually the material of choice when fabricating nanowire FET-based chemo/biosensors.

Suspension A suspended nanowire is a wire produced in a high-vacuum chamber held at the longitudinal extremities.

Synthesis of nanowires An SEM image of epitaxial nanowire heterostructures grown from catalytic gold nanoparticles.

These devices that are built with nanowires to detect cancer proteins; each nanowire detector is primed to be sensitive to a different cancer marker.

Thus, for optimal sensing, the Debye length must be carefully selected for nanowire FET measurements.