In this study, we enlighten about the field effect transistors (FET) and their technologies. As
far as very large integration is concerned, researchers are continuously focusing on scaling …

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

Accurately measuring and controlling the electrical properties of semiconductor nanowires is
of paramount importance in the development of novel nanowire-based devices. In light of …

This paper summarizes some of the essential aspects of silicon‐nanowire growth and of
their electrical properties. In the first part, a brief description of the different growth …

Research on silicon nanowires has developed rapidly in recent years. This can best be
inferred from the sharply increasing number of publications in this field. In 2008, more than …

Wiring Up Silicon Surfaces One of the challenges in downsizing electronic circuits is
maintaining low resistivity of wires, because shrinking their diameter to near atomic …

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes, there has been great interest in the synthesis and
characterization of other one-dimensional materials. A variety of inorganic materials have …

Arrays of III–V direct-bandgap semiconductor nanopillars represent promising photovoltaic
candidates due to their inherent high optical absorption coefficients and minimized reflection …

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 …

Classification is an important task at which both biological and artificial neural networks
excel,. In machine learning, nonlinear projection into a high-dimensional feature space can …