Diamond cubic silicon is widely used for electronic applications, integrated circuits, and
photovoltaics, due to its high abundance, nontoxicity, and outstanding physicochemical …

Recent experimental investigations have confirmed the possibility to synthesize and exploit
polytypism in group IV nanowires. Driven by this promising evidence, we use first-principles …

Silicon, germanium and their alloys are classical semiconductors that play an important role
in fundamental sciences and are the basis for modern microelectronics, optoelectronics …

Large-scale and whole hexagonal diamond silicon nanowires (h-SiNWs) were synthesized
with aluminum-gold (Al–Au) alloy-catalytic assistance to reduce the nucleation barrier by …

Abstract Although hexagonal (2H) silicon (Si) semiconductors exhibit excellent optical
properties owing to their quasi-direct bandgap, their growth conditions, which require …

MoO 3 nanoribbons were studied under different pressure conditions ranging from 0 to 21
GPa at room temperature. The effect of the applied pressure on the spectroscopic and …

An investigation on the electronic structure and band gap nature of hydrogen passivated
wurtzite ZnS/Si and Si/ZnS core/shell nanowires (CSNWs) in the [0001] direction has been …

In this work we present a detailed structural characterization of Si-4H, a newly discovered
bulk form of hexagonal silicon (Si) with potential optoelectronic applications. Using multi …

Crystal phase engineering is an exciting pathway to enhance the properties of conventional
semiconductors. Metastable SiGe presents a direct band gap well suited for optical devices …

The light-emitting property of Si micro single crystals was investigated. A Si micro single
crystal grown by using the atmospheric-pressure, mixed-source hydride vapor phase epitaxy …