... Optical spectroscopy of silicon nanowires Jifa Qia,*, John M. Whitea, Angela M. Belchera, Yasuaki MasumotobaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, ... shows the Raman scattering spectra of theSiNWs and crystal silicon. A very sharp andFig. 1. A typical SEM image of the morphology of aligned silicon nanowires of uniform diameter distribution ... linewidth of crystalline silicon, and D is the size of crystal. Eq. (1) was used to fitthe Raman spectra. The continuous line in Fig. 3shows the best-fit result, and the average crystalsize of nanowires...