title: Seedless growth of free-standing copper nanowires by chemical vapor deposition.
abstract: Free-standing copper nanowires were synthesized by a chemical vapor deposition process at low substrate temperatures using Cu(etac)[P(OEt)3]2 as a precursor. The process requires neither templates nor catalysts to produce copper nanowires of 70-100 nm in diameter, which exhibited high purity and crystallinity with [111] orientation. The grain structures of the films deposited from a series of Cu(I) alkyl 3-oxobutanoate complexes indicated that the high precursor stability was responsible for the columnar growth of the grains, which was evolved to the nanowires eventually.
authors.affiliation: Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. hyungsoo@uiuc.edu
authors.forename: Hyungsoo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Sung-Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Park