Optical sensor technology offers significant opportunities in the field of medical research and
clinical diagnostics, particularly for the detection of small numbers of molecules in highly …

Photovoltaics based on nanowire arrays could reduce cost and materials consumption
compared with planar devices but have exhibited low efficiency of light absorption and …

Vertical arrays of direct band gap III-V semiconductor nanowires (NWs) hold the prospect of
cheap and efficient next-generation photovoltaics, and guidelines for successful light …

Photoconductors using vertical arrays of InAs/InAs1–x Sb x nanowires with varying Sb
composition x have been fabricated and characterized. The spectrally resolved …

Hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM), a sub-wavelength periodic artificial structure with
hyperbolic dispersion, can enhance the spontaneous emission of quantum emitters. Here …

An understanding of the absorption of light is essential for efficient photovoltaic and
photodetection applications with III–V nanowire arrays. Here, we correlate experiments with …

III–V semiconductor nanowire arrays show promise as a platform for next-generation solar
cells. However, the theoretical efficiency limit for converting the energy of sunlight into …

One-dimensional nanostructure arrays can show fascinatingly different, tunable optical
response compared to bulk systems. Here we study theoretically and demonstrate …

Nanophotonics—the science and technology of confining, guiding, and making photons
interact with matter at the nanoscale—is an active research field. By varying the geometry …

We have compared the absorption in InP core–shell nanowire p–i–n junctions in lateral and
vertical orientation. Arrays of vertical core–shell nanowires with 400 nm pitch and 280 nm …