Growth of In2Bi Whiskers

摘要

The first compound whisker grown by squeeze technique (In2Bi) is reported. Rotating crystal xhyphen;ray analysis and meltinghyphen;point measurements confirmed that the whiskers were In2Bi. The whisker axis coincided with the lang;001rang; direction for all four whiskers. A scanning electron microscope photograph indicates that the whiskers have diameters of a few mgr; and a morphology similar to tin whiskers.