Phonon coherence and its effect on thermal conductivity of nanostructures

G **e, D Ding, G Zhang - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The concept of coherence is one of the fundamental phenomena in electronics and optics. In
addition to electron and photon, phonon is another important energy and information carrier …

Colloquium: Structural, electronic, and transport properties of silicon nanowires

R Rurali - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
In this Colloquium the theory of silicon nanowires is reviewed. Nanowires with diameters
below 10 nm are the focus, where quantum effects become important and the properties …

Chiral phonons in microcrystals and nanofibrils of biomolecules

WJ Choi, K Yano, M Cha, FM Colombari, JY Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral phonons are concerted mirror-symmetric movements of atomic groups connected by
covalent and intermolecular bonds. Such lattice vibrations in crystals of biomolecules should …

Raman Spectroscopy of Few-Quintuple Layer Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 Nanoplatelets

J Zhang, Z Peng, A Soni, Y Zhao, Y **ong, B Peng… - Nano …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We report on Raman spectroscopy of few quintuple layer topological insulator bismuth
selenide (Bi2Se3) nanoplatelets (NPs), synthesized by a polyol method. The as-grown NPs …

Excitation dependence and independence of photoluminescence in carbon dots and graphene quantum dots: insights into the mechanism of emission

AB Siddique, SM Hossain, AK Pramanick, M Ray - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Excitation-dependent, multicolor emission from different varieties of 0D carbon systems has
attracted immense research attention. It is generally accepted that some variants of 0D …

Ordered Mesoporous BiVO4 through Nanocasting: A Superior Visible Light-Driven Photocatalyst

G Li, D Zhang, JC Yu - Chemistry of Materials, 2008 - ACS Publications
This paper describes a nanocasting synthesis of ordered mesoporous bismuth vanadate
(BiVO4) crystals using bismuth nitrate hydrate and ammonia metavanadate as bismuth and …

Single p-type/intrinsic/n-type silicon nanowires as nanoscale avalanche photodetectors

C Yang, CJ Barrelet, F Capasso, CM Lieber - Nano letters, 2006 - ACS Publications
We report the controlled synthesis of axial modulation-doped p-type/intrinsic/n-type (pin)
silicon nanowires with uniform diameters and single-crystal structures. The pin nanowires …

Wafer-scale patterning of sub-40 nm diameter and high aspect ratio (> 50: 1) silicon pillar arrays by nanoimprint and etching

KJ Morton, G Nieberg, S Bai, SY Chou - Nanotechnology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate wide-area fabrication of sub-40 nm diameter, 1.5 µm tall, high aspect ratio
silicon pillar arrays with straight sidewalls by combining nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and …

Ultrafast nonlinear all-optical processes in silicon-on-insulator waveguides

R Dekker, N Usechak, M Först… - Journal of physics D …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review we present an overview of the progress made in recent years in the field of
integrated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide photonics with a strong emphasis on third …

Thermal conductivity of silicon nanowire arrays with controlled roughness

JP Feser, JS Sadhu, BP Azeredo, KH Hsu… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
A two-step metal assisted chemical etching technique is used to systematically vary the
sidewall roughness of Si nanowires in vertically aligned arrays. The thermal conductivities of …