In the effort to develop disruptive quantum technologies, germanium is emerging as a
versatile material to realize devices capable of encoding, processing and transmitting …

Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

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 been the subject of intensive research investment over the
past few decades. Their physical properties afford them applications in a vast network of …

A generalized platform for introducing a diverse range of biomolecules into living cells in
high-throughput could transform how complex cellular processes are probed and analyzed …

Nanoscale inorganic materials such as quantum dots (0-dimensional) and one-dimensional
(1D) structures, such as nanowires, nanobelts and nanotubes, have gained tremendous …

Semiconductor nanowires have recently emerged as a new class of materials with
significant potential to reveal new fundamental physics and to propel new applications in …

In an effort to develop low-cost solar energy conversion techniques, high uniformity vertically
oriented silicon wire arrays have been fabricated. These arrays, which allow for radial …

Analogous to planar heteroepitaxy, misfit dislocation formation and stress-driven surface
roughening can relax coherency strains in misfitting core− shell nanowires. The effects of …

Impurity do** is the most important technique to functionalize semiconductor nanowires.
The crucial point is how the states of impurity atoms can be detected. The chemical bonding …