Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

Low-dimensional semiconductor materials structures, where nanowires are needle-like one-
dimensional examples, have developed into one of the most intensely studied fields of …

Semiconductor nanowires are a class of materials recently gaining increasing interest for
solar cell applications. In this article we review the development of the field with a special …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a new class of materials and a shift from
conventional two-dimensional bulk thin films to three-dimensional devices. Unlike thin film …

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with peak efficiencies above 90% and
unrivalled timing jitter (< 30 ps) have emerged as a potent technology for quantum …

Infrared photodetectors are finding widespread applications in telecommunication, motion
detection, chemical sensing, thermal imaging and bio‐medical imaging, etc. The …

Present day nanowire solar cells have reached an efficiency of 17.8%. Nanophotonic
engineering by nanowire tapering allows for high solar light absorption. In combination with …

In this article, we have performed a comparative analysis of six different types of
nanostructures that can improve photon management for photovoltaic applications. These …

Solar energy is abundant, clean, and renewable, making it an ideal energy source. Solar
cells are a good option to harvest this energy. However, it is difficult to balance the cost and …

III–V solar cells in the nanowire geometry might hold significant synthesis-cost and device-
design advantages as compared to thin films and have shown impressive performance …