Research Article

Metal-Catalyst-Free Synthesis and Characterization of Single-Crystalline Silicon Oxynitride Nanowires

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(a) SEM image of the as-grown SiOxNy nanowires. (b) TEM image of the as-grown SiOxNy nanowires. Circles mark the backbone-to-branch junctions of Y-shaped nanowire formation. (c) histogram of the nanowire diameter distribution with the solid line representing a log-normal fit.
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