Catalytic synthesis and photoluminescence of needle-shaped 3C-SiC nanowires

  • D. H. Feng*
  • , T. Q. Jia
  • , X. X. Li
  • , Z. Z. Xu
  • , J. Chen
  • , S. Z. Deng
  • , Z. S. Wu
  • , N. S. Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Needle-shaped 3C-SiC nanowires were grown from commercially available SiC powders in a thermal evaporation process with iron as catalyst. A strong broad photoluminescence peak located around 450 nm was observed at room temperature, which may be ascribed to quantum size effects of nanomaterials. Needle-shaped 3C-SiC nanowires may have great potential applications such as blue-green light-emitting diodes and display devices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)295-297
Number of pages3
JournalSolid State Communications
Volume128
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2003
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • A. Nanostructures
  • A. Semiconductors
  • D. Optical properties

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