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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2013
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Erik C. Garnett, Amsterdam, NL;
Mark L. Brongersma, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yi Cui, Stanford, CA (US);
Michael D. McGehee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Greyson Christoforo, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Wenshan Cai, Marietta, GA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses and methods involving nanowires having junctions therebetween. As consistent with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second sets of nanowires, in which the second set overlaps the first set. The apparatus further includes a plurality of nanowire joining recrystallization junctions, each junction including material from a nanowire of the first set that is recrystallized into an overlapping nanowire of the second set.