Planar growth, integration, and applications of semiconducting nanowires

Y Sun, T Dong, L Yu, J Xu, K Chen - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon and other inorganic semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been extensively
investigated in the last two decades for constructing high‐performance nanoelectronics …

Rational design of nanowire solar cells: from single nanowire to nanowire arrays

W Chen, PR i Cabarrocas - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we report several rational designs of nanowire-based solar cells from single
nanowire to nanowire arrays. Two methods of nanowires fabrication: via'top …

Incorporation and redistribution of impurities into silicon nanowires during metal-particle-assisted growth

W Chen, L Yu, S Misra, Z Fan, P Pareige… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The incorporation of metal atoms into silicon nanowires during metal-particle-assisted
growth is a critical issue for various nanowire-based applications. Here we have been able …

Helical stacking assembly of orderly silicon nanowire multilayers for ultrastrong dissymmetrical amplification of circularly polarized light

TG Dong, ZG Wu, FL Li, JZ Wang… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Circularly polarized organic light‐emitting diodes (CP‐OLEDs) are ideal candidates to
explore novel applications such as 3D displays, optical storage, and quantum computing …

Engineering island-chain silicon nanowires via a droplet mediated Plateau-Rayleigh transformation

Z Xue, M Xu, Y Zhao, J Wang, X Jiang, L Yu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The ability to program highly modulated morphology upon silicon nanowires (SiNWs) has
been fundamental to explore new phononic and electronic functionalities. We here exploit a …

High-Performance Field-Effect Sensing of Ammonia Based on High-Density and Ultrathin Silicon Nanowire Channels

C Yang, W Liao, J Wang, L Yu - ACS sensors, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ultrathin silicon nanowires (SiNWs), grown via a high-yield and low-cost catalytic approach,
are ideal building blocks for the construction of highly sensitive field-effect transistor (FET) …

Ultra‐Confined Catalytic Growth Integration of Sub‐10 nm 3D Stacked Silicon Nanowires Via a Self‐Delimited Droplet Formation Strategy

R Hu, Y Liang, W Qian, X Gan, L Liang, J Wang, Z Liu… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fabricating ultrathin silicon (Si) channels down to critical dimension (CD)< 10 nm, a key
capability to implementing cutting‐edge microelectronics and quantum charge‐qubits, has …

Real-Time Study of Surface-Guided Nanowire Growth by In Situ Scanning Electron Microscopy

A Rothman, K Bukvisova, NR Itzhak, I Kaplan-Ashiri… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Surface-guided growth has proven to be an efficient approach for the production of nanowire
arrays with controlled orientations and their large-scale integration into electronic and …

Deterministic line-shape programming of silicon nanowires for extremely stretchable springs and electronics

Z Xue, M Sun, T Dong, Z Tang, Y Zhao, J Wang… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Line-shape engineering is a key strategy to endow extra stretchability to 1D silicon
nanowires (SiNWs) grown with self-assembly processes. We here demonstrate a …

Monolithic integration of silicon nanowire networks as a soft wafer for highly stretchable and transparent electronics

T Dong, Y Sun, Z Zhu, X Wu, J Wang, Y Shi, J Xu… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Assembling nanoscale building blocks into an orderly network with a programmable layout
and channel designs represents a critical capability to enable a wide range of stretchable …