The preparation of hollow inorganic capsules of defined shape, composition and with
tailored properties is of immense scientific and technological interest. This article mainly …

Many recent advances in microelectronics would not have been possible without the
development of strain induced nanodevices and bandgap engineering, in particular …

Porous metal oxide hollow architectures are achieved. High‐porosity hollow doughnut‐
shaped and spherical CuO structures are synthesized by thermal oxidation of the …

The successful synthesis of monoclinic Nb 2 O 5 nanotube arrays (see figure) from pseudo‐
hexagonal Nb 2 O 5 nanorod arrays is reported; the synthesis is based on phase …

Uniform single-crystalline SnS nanobelts have been prepared via a simple wet-chemical
route, in which SnCl2 was used as tin source and Na2S as sulfur source. Direct conversion …

Results of investigations into surface processes of the formation of germanium and silicon
nanostructures are analyzed. A mechanism of three-dimensional island nucleation and …

In this article we review the extensive experimental work on the compositional map** of
semiconductor quantum dots and rings. After a brief introduction of the various experimental …

Quantum dots ordered in regular lattices, called quantum-dot superlattices, offer numerous
possibilities for the creation of novel materials. The formation of such structures during …

A semiconductor quantum dot (QD) can generate highly indistinguishable single photons at
a high rate. For application in quantum communication and integration in hybrid systems …

Currently, the nature of self-assembly of three-dimensional epitaxial islands or quantum dots
(QDs) in a lattice-mismatched heteroepitaxial growth system, such as InAs/GaAs (001) and …