Coaxial Nanocable: Silicon Carbide and Silicon Oxide Sheathed with Boron Nitride and Carbon

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 281 Số 5379 - Trang 973-975 - 1998
Yuegang Zhang1, Kazu Suenaga1, C. Colliex1, Sumio Iijima1
1Y. Zhang, Fundamental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan. K. Suenaga, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, URA 002, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 510, 91405 Orsay, France, and Japan Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Meijo University, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan. C. Colliex, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, URA 002, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 510, 91405 Orsay, France. S. Iijima, Fundamental Research Laboratories, NEC...

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Multielement nanotubes comprising multiple phases, with diameters of a few tens of nanometers and lengths up to 50 micrometers, were successfully synthesized by means of reactive laser ablation. The experimentally determined structure consists of a β-phase silicon carbide core, an amorphous silicon oxide intermediate layer, and graphitic outer shells made of boron nitride and carbon layers separated in the radial direction. The structure resembles a coaxial nanocable with a semiconductor-insulator-metal (or semiconductor-insulator-semiconductor) geometry and suggests applications in nanoscale electronic devices that take advantage of this self-organization mechanism for multielement nanotube formation.

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