Nanobismuth: Fabrication, Optical, and Plasmonic Properties—Emerging Applications

Figure 4

(a) Cross-sectional SEM image of a Bi nanowire grown by (a) the Ulitovsky method (the inset diagram outlines the growth mechanism) [70] and (b) pressurized injection in a quartz template [80]. Rreprinted with permission from [69] American Physical Society and [79] © 2012 Masayuki et al., originally published in Nanoscale Research Letters, vol. 7, p. 505, 2012, doi: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-505, under CC by 2.0 license.