Patent ID: 7897494
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: B82Y,C30B,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for growing crystalline nanostructures onto a substrate, the method comprising: providing a pattern on a main surface of the substrate, wherein the pattern has at least one opening, the opening extending from a surface of the pattern to the main surface of the substrate, and wherein at least a portion of the main surface of the substrate is exposed; providing a metal in the opening of the pattern on the exposed main surface; at least partly filling the opening with an amorphous material, and annealing the amorphous material and the metal at a temperature of from about 300° C. to about 1000° C., thereby transforming at least a part of the amorphous material into crystalline material by metal mediated crystallization to form a crystalline nanostructure.