Jenke, Martin Günter; Lerose, Damiana; Niederberger, Christoph; Michler, Johann; Christiansen, Silke; Utke, Ivo
Nano Letters 11 (2011)
We present a novel minimally invasive postprocessing method for catalyst templating based on focused charged particle beam structuring, which enables a localized vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth of individual nanowires on prefabricated three-dimensional micro- and nanostructures. Gas-assisted focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) was used to deposit a SiOx surface layer of about 10×10 μ2 on top of a silicon atomic force microscopy cantilever. Gallium focused ion beam (FIB) milling was used to make a hole through the SiOx layer into the underlying silicon. The hole was locally filled with a gold catalyst via FEBID using either Me 2Au(tfac) or Me2Au(acac) as precursor. Subsequent chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-induced VLS growth using a mixture of SiH4 and Ar resulted in individual high quality crystalline nanowires. The process, its yield, and the resulting angular distribution/crystal orientation of the silicon nanowires are discussed. The presented combined FIB/FEBID/CVD-VLS process is currently the only proven method that enables the growth of individual monocrystalline Si nanowires on prestructured substrates and devices. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
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