Nanostructured semiconducting metal oxides and particularly single nanowire devices offer
exceptional gas sensitivity but at the expense of statistical variations and excessive noise …

Semiconducting nanowires (NWs) are firm candidates for novel nanoelectronic devices and
a fruitful playground for fundamental physics. Ultra-thin nanowires, with diameters below 10 …

Room temperature operation, low detection limit and fast response time are highly desirable
for a wide range of gas sensing applications. However, the available gas sensors suffer …

The ability to control physical properties of silicon nanowires (Si NWs) by designing their
surface bonds is important for their applicability in devices in the areas of nano-electronics …

p-Type surface conductivity is a uniquely important property of hydrogen-terminated
diamond surfaces. In this work, we report similar surface-dominated electrical properties in …

Wafer-scale graphene/Si-nanowire (Si-NW) array heterostructures for molecular sensing
have been fabricated by vertically contacting single-layer graphene with high-density Si …

The reduced dimensionality of nanowires implies that surface effects significantly influence
their properties, which has important implications for the fabrication of nanodevices such as …

Particle attachment and neck formation inside TiO2 nanoparticle networks determine
materials performance in sensing, photo-electrochemistry, and catalysis. Nanoparticle necks …

To include particle attachment and porosity of nanostructured materials in the discussion of
their electronic properties is critical to our understanding of charge transfer across grain …

Impurity do** in semiconductor nanowires, while increasingly well understood, is not yet
controllable at a satisfactory degree. The large surface-to-volume area of these systems …