Index 325
refractive indexes of ensembles of
epitaxially grown, 141
transmission and reflection measurements,
138, 140
Ge nanowires, melting point reduction in, 9
GeTe nanowires, 278
EDS spectrum of, 280
evaporation rate, 288
high-resolution TEM images of crystal
structure of, 281
melting point, measurement of, 288
SEM image of, 279
Giant birefringence, 141–143
Giant magnetoresistance (GMR), 247
Gibbs–Thomson effect, 7–9
Gold, thin films of, 129
H
Half-metallic (HM) ferromagnet, 260
Hard disk drive (HDD), 247
Heisenberg Hamiltonian, 265
High-density magnetic storage devices, 250
High-frequency induction heating furnace,
components of, 30
Hybrid nanostructure, 250
I
InAs/InAl(Ga)As QWR superlattices, 292
InAs nanostructures, nucleation sites for, 299
InAs nanowires
growth of, 2
effect of oxygen on, 4–5
effect of SiO
x
on, 10–13
melting point depression, Au–In tip, 7–8
InAs quantum wires
formation on InAlAs/InP(001), 292
superlattices
spatial correlation of, 301
vertical anticorrelation of, 302
Indium phosphide nanowire, 128
Indium titanium oxide (ITO), 195
Infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy
(IRRAS), 210
InP nanowires, 129
photoluminescence spectra of, 132, 133
In
2
Se
3
nanowires
SEM image of, 284
on SiO
2
substrate, 286
β-In
2
Se
3
nanowires, high-resolution TEM
images of, 285
Interband transition, anomalous temperature
dependence of, 314
Intraband photocurrent, 317
Ion beam alignment, 84, 91
Isopropanol (IPA), 195
K
Kohn–Sham single-electron equations, 219
L
Laser-ablation technique, 23–24
Laser beam depolarization, 204
Lateral composition modulation (LCM), 294
Liquid metal alloy droplet, 3
Liquidus depression, 9–10
Local density approximation (LDA), 267
Local spin density approximation (LSDA), 267
Lorentz Model, 155
combination with Drude model, 156–157
Lorentz oscillator, 161
LSP resonance, 178, 200, 205
Luebbers coefficients, 156
M
Magnetic anisotropy, 249, 264
Magnetoresistance (MR) ratio, 260
Magnetoresistive random access memory
(MRAM), 247
Maxwell–Garnett effective medium
approximation, 136
Maxwell’s equations, 148, 178
for metallic nanorods, 180
techniques to solve, 183
MD simulations, GaN nanotubes
compressive behavior of, 121–122
melting processes of, 102–103
thermal conductivity, 107–110
Melting point depression, Gibbs–Thompson
effect, 7–9
Melting temperature
bulk GaN, 102–103
GaN nanotubes, 105–106
GaN slabs, 103–104
metal cluster, 101
Mercury-cadmium telluride (MCT) detector,
196
Metal alloy tip
liquid state of, 1
solid state of, 2, 6, 10
Metal-carbon nanotube, 219
Metal cluster decoration, for sensing
characteristics of SWNT-FETs, 234
Metal-CNT interfaces, 227
Metal-film morphology, 207
Metal-induced gap state (MIGS), 223
Metallic nanoparticles
study of, 162
surface plasmon resonances of, 176, 200
Metallic nanorods, Maxwell’s equations for,
180