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15 - General Engineering
University of Durham
Self-catalyzed, pure zincblende GaAs nanowires grown on Si(111) by molecular beam epitaxy.
This work led to a sustained collaboration between Durham, IOFFE institute and St Petersburg academic University and formed the basis for an FP7 grant (FUNPROB, funded by the European commission) involving 9 European partners and also led award of a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in 2010. The VLSI model, proposed to explain the phase purity and the coexistence of single crystals zincblende and wurtzite structures is now widely accepted in the nanowires research community. The results also initiated the formulation of 2 EU consortia projects (FUNPROB and NanoEmbrace, funded in excess of 3.8 million) under FP7.