Nanowires and Nanorods

Carbon nanotubes can be grown between self-assembled silicon-germanium quantum dots (a), forming a network of suspended nanotubes (b). The nanotubes were grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at a temperature of 900 C.

For more details, see:

"Template-directed carbon nanotube network using self-ordered Si nanocrystals," B. Yang, M. S. Marcus, D. G. Keppel, P. P. Zhang, Z. W. Li, B. J. Larson, D. E. Savage, J. M. Simmons, O. M. Castellini, M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 263107 (2005)