Nanowire networks: Small 16/2009

The frontispiece shows a scanning tunneling microscopy image of a well-ordered Au silicide nanowire network self-organized on a 16×2 superstructure of a Si(110) surface by post-deposition annealing at 1100 K. This nanomesh consists of two crossed arrays of parallel-aligned Au silicide nanowires with distinctly different sizes and conductivities. The ability to form a perfectly ordered 2D nanomesh on a Si(110) nanotemplate represents a step towards the nanofabrication of integrated 2D crossbar nanocircuits in a very straightforward, fast, cost-effective, and high-throughput process. For more information, please read the Full Paper “Two-Dimensional Self-Organization of an Ordered Au Silicide Nanowire Network on a Si(110) 16×2 Surface” by I.-H. Hong et al., beginning on page 1855.