Recently, implantable medical electronics (IMEs) have become essential for extending
patient's lives. Extending the lifespan of these devices has in turn become a main challenge …

This review provides a detailed overview of the energy harvesting technologies associated
with piezoelectric materials along with the closely related sub-classes of pyroelectrics and …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

Group-III-nitride semiconductors, including AlN, GaN, InN and their ternary, quaternary
compounds, are promising electronic and optoelectronic materials for the applications in …

Mechanical systems are ideal candidates for studying quantum behavior of macroscopic
objects. To this end, a mechanical resonator has to be cooled to its ground state and its …

Applications of nanowires into future generation nanodevices require a complete
understanding of the mechanical properties of the nanowires. A great research effort has …

Piezoelectric nanowires are promising building blocks in nanoelectronic, sensing, actuation
and nanogenerator systems. In spite of great progress in synthesis methods, quantitative …

Energy harvesting from piezoelectric materials is quite common and has been studied for
the past few decades. But recently, there have been a lot of new advancements in …

Insight into the mechanical characteristics of nanoscopic structures is of fundamental interest
and indeed poses a great challenge to the research communities around the world. These …

With significant progress in the past decade, semiconductor nanowires have demonstrated
unique features compared to their thin film counterparts, such as enhanced light absorption …