After over 150 years of exploiting fossil fuels, nowadays humans are encountering two great
global problems: the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the expected …

Silicon microwires are very promising candidates for next-generation solar cells. Si
microwires achieve strong broadband light absorption, acting as an antireflection coating …

Highly structured silicon microwire (Si MW) arrays have been synthesized and characterized
as absorbers for solar energy-conversion systems. These materials are of great interest for …

The development of photovoltaics as a serious means of producing renewable energy has
accelerated greatly in the last ten years, with prices for silicon-based solar cell systems …

Semiconductor-core optical fibres have potential applications in photonics and
optoelectronics due to large nonlinear optical coefficients and an extended transparency …

Free-standing, membrane-embedded, Si microwire arrays have been used to affect the solar-
driven, unassisted splitting of HI into H2 and I3−. The Si microwire arrays were grown by a …

Conduction and valence band energies (E CB, E VB) for CdSe nanorods (NRs)
functionalized with Au nanoparticle (NP) tips are reported here, referenced to the vacuum …

The electroless etching technique combined with the process of UV/Ozone pretreatment is
presented for wafer-scale fabrication of the silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays. The high-level …

To achieve the semiconductor photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells targeting the industry
applications with commercial competitiveness, high efficiency and good stability are …

One dimensional micro-/nanostructures of semiconductors are attracting increasing attention
due to their large specific surface area, their high aspect ratio and their unique …