The piezoelectric effect, discovered in 1880 by Jacques and Pierre Curie, effectively allows
to transduce signals from the mechanical domain to the electrical domain and vice versa …

From last few decades, piezoelectric materials have played a vital role as a mechanism of
energy harvesting, as they have the tendency to absorb energy from the environment and …

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

Aybrid tribo/piezoelectric nanogenerators (HTPENG) have been proven to be highly efficient
and versatile as far as the collection and conversion of ambient energy are concerned, and …

Semiconductor GaN NWs are promising components in next generation nano-and
optoelectronic systems. In addition to their direct band gap, they exhibit piezoelectricity …

Semiconductor nanowires are widely considered as the building blocks that revolutionized
many areas of nanosciences and nanotechnologies. The unique features in nanowires …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) probes the mechanical deformation of a sample in
response to an electric field applied with the tip of an atomic force microscope. Originally …

This paper presents a multi-layer cantilever piezoelectric energy conversion structure for
pavement, which avoids weakening the electrical output after the mass contact and realizes …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been researched as the building blocks for various
nanosensors and devices, such as strain sensors,[1, 2] photodetectors,[3] biosensors,[4] and …

We demonstrate the first piezo-generator integrating a vertical array of GaN nanowires
(NWs). We perform a systematic multi-scale analysis, going from single wire properties to …