Energy harvested directly from sunlight offers a desirable approach toward fulfilling, with
minimal environmental impact, the need for clean energy. Solar energy is a decentralized …

The increasing human need for clean and renewable energy has stimulated research in
artificial photosynthesis, and in particular water photoelectrolysis as a pathway to hydrogen …

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies for solar energy conversion represent promising routes to
green and renewable energy generation. Despite relevant PV technologies being available …

The scalable and sustainable production of hydrogen fuel through water splitting demands
efficient and robust Earth-abundant catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) …

Photovoltaics based on nanowire arrays could reduce cost and materials consumption
compared with planar devices but have exhibited low efficiency of light absorption and …

When light interacts with a metal nanoparticle (NP), its conduction electrons can be driven
by the incident electric field in collective oscillations known as localized surface plasmon …

High-performance photovoltaic cells use semiconductors to convert sunlight into clean
electrical power, and transparent dielectrics or conductive oxides as antireflection coatings …

Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

Health, infrastructure, and environmental monitoring as well as networking and defense
technologies are only some of the potential areas of application of micro‐/nanosystems …