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Highly Ordered and Well-oriented Single-crystal CdTe Nanowire Arrays by Direct-current Electrodeposition

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Highly ordered CdTe nanowire arrays were prepared by electrochemical deposition into the pores of anodic aluminum oxide templates from an ethylene glycol bath containing CdCl2, TeCl4, and KI. Electron microscopy results showed that the length, diameter, and direction of growth of the nanowires were quite uniform. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and high-resolution electron microscopy investigations showed that these nanowires had a crystalline structure of hexagonal CdTe single crystal with a uniform [001] growth direction.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Dongsheng Xu, Yuguo Guo, Dapeng Yu, Guolin Guo & Youqi Tang

  2. Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    D. P. Yu

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Xu, D., Guo, Y., Yu, D. et al. Highly Ordered and Well-oriented Single-crystal CdTe Nanowire Arrays by Direct-current Electrodeposition. Journal of Materials Research 17, 1711–1714 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2002.0253

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