Recent advances in the growth of germanium nanowires: synthesis, growth dynamics and morphology control

C O'Regan, S Biswas, N Petkov… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
One-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures have been studied in great depth over the
past number of decades as potential building blocks in electronic, thermoelectric …

Controlling the diameter distribution and density of InAs nanowires grown by Au-assisted methods

UP Gomes, D Ercolani, V Zannier… - Semiconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
III-V semiconductor nanowires have attracted intensive research interest because of their
promising optical and electronic properties that can be manipulated by tailoring nanowire …

One-step grown carbonaceous germanium nanowires and their application as highly efficient lithium-ion battery anodes

A Garcia, S Biswas, D McNulty, A Roy… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Develo** a simple, cheap, and scalable synthetic method for the fabrication of functional
nanomaterials is crucial. Carbon-based nanowire nanocomposites could play a key role in …

Synthesis of Mesoporous SnO2 Spheres and Application in Gas Sensors

X Wang, S Qiu, J Liu, C He, G Lu… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoporous tin oxide (SnO2) spheres with a size of 500–700 nm have been successfully
synthesized through annealing a tin hydroxide precursor was obtained by a one‐pot …

Nucleation and growth of Ag nanoparticles on amorphous carbon surface from vapor phase formed by vacuum evaporation

DG Gromov, LM Pavlova, AI Savitsky, AY Trifonov - Applied Physics A, 2015 - Springer
We present the results of experimental study of Ag nanoparticle arrays on thin film of
amorphous carbon. The arrays were formed by means of vapor phase deposition on non …

Evidence of Ostwald ripening during evolution of micro-scale solid carbon spheres

H Ham, NH Park, SS Kim, HW Kim - Scientific Reports, 2014 - nature.com
Ostwald ripening is an evolutionary mechanism that results in micro-scale carbon spheres
from nano-scale spheres. Vapor-phase carbon elements from small carbon nanoparticles …

Solution phase synthesis of silicon and germanium nanowires

H Geaney, E Mullane, KM Ryan - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Si and Ge nanowires have attracted widespread interest due to their suitability for
photovoltaic, nanoelectronic, sensing and energy storage applications. As a result, a variety …

Rapid, low-temperature synthesis of germanium nanowires from oligosilylgermane precursors

M Aghazadeh Meshgi, S Biswas, D McNulty… - Chemistry of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
New oligosilylgermane compounds with weak Ge–H bonds have been used as precursors
for the rapid synthesis of germanium (Ge) nanowires in high yields (> 80%), via a solution …

Solvent vapor growth of axial heterostructure nanowires with multiple alternating segments of silicon and germanium

G Flynn, QM Ramasse, KM Ryan - Nano letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report the formation of multisegment Si–Ge axial heterostructure nanowires in a
wet chemical synthetic approach. These nanowires are grown by the liquid injection of the …

Self-catalytic growth of elementary semiconductor nanowires with controlled morphology and crystallographic orientation

HS Jang, TH Kim, BG Kim, B Hou, IH Lee, SH Jung… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
While the orientation-dependent properties of semiconductor nanowires have been
theoretically predicted, their study has long been overlooked in many fields owing to the …