(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from Sweden,the U.
K. and the U.
S. has used a transmission electron microscope to discover the secrets behind how nanowires used to obtain semiconductors grow. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes their microscopic study of gallium arsenide nanowires during their growth phase and what they learned about the process. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland offers a News & Views Perspective piece on the work done by the team in the same journal issue outlining the process used and explaining what the results will mean for advances in electronics, or photonics and quantum information research efforts.
Source: phys.org