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Control of Nanowire Growth Advances Silicon Photonics

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 21, 2019 — Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, together with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ioffe Institute in Russia, have discovered a way to grow nanowire networks in a highly controlled and fully reproducible manner. First, they needed to understand what happens at the onset of nanowire growth — a process, they found, that goes against currently accepted theories. EPFL researchers have found a way to control and standardize the production of nanowires on silicon...Read full article

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    Published: February 2019
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