Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been achieved in the development of
nanoscale semiconductor materials with a wide range of bandgaps by alloying different …

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes, there has been great interest in the synthesis and
characterization of other one-dimensional materials. A variety of inorganic materials have …

Compositional dependence of optical and electrical properties of chalcogenide CdS x Se 1−
x (0.4≥ x≥ 0.0 at.%) thin films was studied. Cadmium sulphoselenide films were deposited …

Band gap engineering of atomically thin two-dimensional layered materials is critical for their
applications in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and photonics. Here we report, for the first …

Metal sulfide nanomaterials have attracted great attention because of their excellent
properties and promising applications in electronic, optical and optoelectronic devices. Well …

A general approach to fine-tuning the upconversion emission colors, based upon a single
host source of NaYF4 nanoparticles doped with Yb3+, Tm3+, and Er3+, is presented. The …

Nanoprint-based color display using either extrinsic structural colors or intrinsic emission
colors is a rapidly emerging research field for high-density information storage …

The distinct properties of II–VI nanostructures have opened new opportunities for the
applications of II–VI semiconductor materials in electronics and optoelectronics. Herein, we …

A facile wet chemical synthesis method was used to prepare a range of single-crystal Na
(Y1. 5Na0. 5) F6 nanorods with controllable aspect ratios. Their novel multicolor …

By controlling local substrate temperature in a chemical vapor deposition system, we have
successfully achieved spatial composition grading covering the complete composition range …