Semiconductor nanowires have demonstrated exciting properties for nanophotonics,
sensors, energy technologies, and end-of-roadmap and beyond-roadmap electronic …

Silicon and other inorganic semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been extensively
investigated in the last two decades for constructing high‐performance nanoelectronics …

A scalable and cost‐effective process is used to electroplate metallic Zn seeds on stainless
steel substrates. Si and Ge nanowires (NWs) are subsequently grown by placing the …

High power-to-weight ratio (PTWR) is an important figure-of-merit for high performance
flexible/portable solar cells. Marrying advanced tandem junction design with three …

Bismuth-based liquid metals (LMs) are a large group of alloys with melting points slightly
above room temperature. They are associated with fewer encapsulation constraints than …

In the past decades, group IV nanowires and nanoparticles have been the subject of
extensive research. Beside tremendous progress in morphological control and integration in …

High-yield epitaxial bottom-up growth of silicon nanowires is still challenging but desirable
for various applications such as antireflective coatings, solar cells, and high-aspect-ratio …

Advanced material combining with novel 3D radial junction design is an attractive strategy to
fabricate low-cost high-efficiency thin film solar cells. For improving the power conversion …

We report on a silicon nanowire growth method that is based on the use of a dual-phase
catalyst made of liquid Sn and solid Cu3Si, which results in a liquid-assisted VSS (LA-VSS) …

Recent years have witnessed increasing efforts devoted to the growth, assembly and
integration of quasi-one dimensional (1D) nanowires (NWs), as fundamental building blocks …