Paper SE+TF+NC-ThM10
Characteristic Length Scale of Nanorods

Thursday, October 23, 2008, 11:00 am, Room 204

Glancing angle deposition has led to numerous exotic structures of nanorods. It is natural to ask: what makes nanorods nano. Following the discovery of three-dimensional Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier, we have discovered a new length scale that dictates the formation of crystalline nanorods. This presentation starts with the physics origin of such length scale, and continues with atomistic simulations demonstrating the variation of the length scale and validation experiments, and ends with design of nanosynthesis based on the knowledge of this new length scale & its experimental validation. It is interesting to note that this length scale is the very reason that nanorods synthesis is possible, even though nanorods had been realized long time ago (and it was patented a decade ago).