Caroff, PhilippeBolinsson, JessicaJohansson, Jonas2015-12-131077-260Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/84887III-V nanowires (NWs) are promising for a wide range of applications, ranging from optics to electronics, energy, and biological sensing. The structural quality of NWs is of paramount importance for the performance of such future NW-based devices. RandomKeywords: III-V nanowires (NWs); metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE); molecular beam epitaxy (MBE); nucleation kinetics modeling; Polytypism; thermodynamic modeling; Twin planes; Vapor-liquid-solid growth; Wurtzites; zinc blende (ZB); Epitaxial growth; Molecul Gold-assisted vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth; III-V nanowires (NWs); metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE); molecular beam epitaxy (MBE); nucleation kinetics modeling; polytypism; stacking faults (SFs); thermodynamic modeling; twin plane (TP); wurtzit201110.1109/JSTQE.2010.20707902016-02-24