7-11 July 2014
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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Growth of FeSi nanowires by Chemical Vapour Deposition for Gas Sensing Applications

9 Jul 2014, 17:10
1h 50m
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Board: A.190
Poster Presentation Track A - Division for Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials Poster2

Speaker

Dr Sibongiseni Thabethe (CSIR)

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FeSi belongs to a class of narrow band gap semiconductors. It has been studied for more than 30 years because of its unusual properties such as its metal to insulator transition (MIT) at temperatures near 300 K [1,2]. We report on the synthesis of FeSi nanowires using chemical vapor deposition for gas sensing applications. Anhydrous FeCl3 powder was used as the precursor. N2 gas was used to carry the precursor vapors to the silicon substrates which were placed in a horizontal quartz tube furnace at a temperature of 1100oC. XRD and TEM results confirm that the nanowires are FeSi with a cubic crystal structure.

References
[1]J.R Szczech, S. Jin. Journal of Material Chemistry. 2010, 20, 1375-1382.
[2]S. Jang, Y. Lee, S. Kim, J. Seo, D. Kim, Material Letters, 2011, 65, 2979-2981.

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD)?

MSc

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Bonex Mwakikunga
BMwakikunga@csir.co.za
Council for Scientic and Industrial Research

Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)?

No

Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?

No

Primary author

Co-author

Prof. Chris Arendse (University of the Western Cape)

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