Semiconductor nanowires: to grow or not to grow?

PC McIntyre, AF i Morral - Materials Today Nano, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Semiconductor nanowires have demonstrated exciting properties for nanophotonics,
sensors, energy technologies, and end-of-roadmap and beyond-roadmap electronic …

Towards high efficiency nanowire solar cells

G Otnes, MT Borgström - Nano Today, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Semiconductor nanowires are a class of materials recently gaining increasing interest for
solar cell applications. In this article we review the development of the field with a special …

[ספר][B] Nucleation theory and growth of nanostructures

VG Dubrovskii - 2014‏ - Springer
Nucleation theory provides a powerful tool for growth modeling of a variety of objects: from
liquid droplets to thin solid films and biological structures. Theoretical approaches based on …

Controlled polytypic and twin-plane superlattices in iii–v nanowires

P Caroff, KA Dick, J Johansson, ME Messing… - Nature …, 2009‏ - nature.com
Semiconductor nanowires show promise for use in nanoelectronics, fundamental electron
transport studies, quantum optics and biological sensing. Such applications require a high …

Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures

D Spirkoska, J Arbiol, A Gustafsson, S Conesa-Boj… - Physical Review B …, 2009‏ - APS
The structural and optical properties of three different kinds of GaAs nanowires with 100%
zinc-blende structure and with an average of 30% and 70% wurtzite are presented. A variety …

III–V nanowires and nanowire optoelectronic devices

Y Zhang, J Wu, M Aagesen, H Liu - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2015‏ - iopscience.iop.org
III–V nanowires (NWs) have been envisioned as nanoscale materials for next-generation
technology with good functionality, superior performance, high integration ability and low …

Predicted band structures of III-V semiconductors in the wurtzite phase

A De, CE Pryor - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010‏ - APS
While non-nitride III-V semiconductors typically have a zinc-blende structure, they may also
form wurtzite crystals under pressure or when grown as nanowhiskers. This makes …

III–V nanowire photovoltaics: Review of design for high efficiency

RR LaPierre, ACE Chia, SJ Gibson… - physica status solidi …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews recent developments in nanowire‐based photovoltaics (PV) with an
emphasis on III–V semiconductors including growth mechanisms, device fabrication and …

Nanowires for energy: A review

NI Goktas, P Wilson, A Ghukasyan, D Wagner… - Applied Physics …, 2018‏ - pubs.aip.org
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a new class of materials and a shift from
conventional two-dimensional bulk thin films to three-dimensional devices. Unlike thin film …

Growth kinetics and crystal structure of semiconductor nanowires

VG Dubrovskii, NV Sibirev, JC Harmand, F Glas - Physical Review B …, 2008‏ - APS
Theoretical model for the growth of semiconductor nanowires is developed, which enables
one to determine the growth conditions under which the formation of nanowires is possible …