Nanowires are filamentary crystals with a tailored diameter that can be obtained using a
plethora of different synthesis techniques. In this review, we focus on the vapor phase …

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

Strain relaxation mechanisms during epitaxial growth of core-shell nanostructures play a key
role in determining their morphologies, crystal structure and properties. To unveil those …

The lack of mirror symmetry in binary semiconductor compounds turns them into polar
materials, where two opposite orientations of the same crystallographic direction are …

Photonic crystals can be used to achieve high‐performance surface‐emitting lasers and
enable novel photonic topological insulator devices. In this work, a GaAs/InGaAs …

Gallium phosphide is a low-loss, high-refractive-index semiconductor considered as a
promising material for active and passive components in modern nanophotonics. In this …

III–V integration on Si (100) is a challenge: controlled vertical vapor liquid solid nanowire
growth on this platform has not been reported so far. Here we demonstrate an atypical GaAs …

Polar materials display a series of interesting and widely exploited properties owing to the
inherent coupling between their fixed electric dipole and any action that involves a change …

With their unique structural, optical and electrical properties, III–V nanowires (NWs) are an
extremely attractive option for the direct growth of III–Vs on Si for tandem solar cell …

The control of the crystal phase in self-catalyzed nanowires (NWs) is one of the central
remaining open challenges in the research field of III/V semiconductor NWs. While several …