nanowire
Noun
Meaning
nanowire (plural nanowires)
(physics) A wire whose width is of the order of nanometers.
Examples
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.
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.
Overview Crystalline 2×2-atom tin selenide nanowire grown inside a single-wall carbon nanotube (tube diameter ~1 nm). citation A noise-filtered HRTEM image of a HgTe extreme nanowire embedded down the central pore of a SWCNT.
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.