Fundamentals of the nanowire solar cell: Optimization of the open circuit voltage

JEM Haverkort, EC Garnett, EPAM Bakkers - Applied Physics Reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Present day nanowire solar cells have reached an efficiency of 17.8%. Nanophotonic
engineering by nanowire tapering allows for high solar light absorption. In combination with …

Selective-area epitaxy of pure wurtzite InP nanowires: high quantum efficiency and room-temperature lasing

Q Gao, D Saxena, F Wang, L Fu, S Mokkapati… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report the growth of stacking-fault-free and taper-free wurtzite InP nanowires with
diameters ranging from 80 to 600 nm using selective-area metal–organic vapor-phase …

Recent progress in integration of III–V nanowire transistors on Si substrate by selective-area growth

K Tomioka, T Fukui - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the recent progress in electronic applications using III–V nanowires (NWs) on
Si substrates using the selective-area growth method. This method could align vertical III–V …

Effective Surface Passivation of InP Nanowires by Atomic-Layer-Deposited Al2O3 with POx Interlayer

LE Black, A Cavalli, MA Verheijen, JEM Haverkort… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
III/V semiconductor nanostructures have significant potential in device applications, but
effective surface passivation is critical due to their large surface-to-volume ratio. For InP such …

A new strategy for selective area growth of highly uniform InGaAs/InP multiple quantum well nanowire arrays for optoelectronic device applications

F Zhang, X Zhang, Z Li, R Yi, Z Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
III‐V semiconductor nanowires with quantum wells (QWs) are promising for ultra‐compact
light sources and photodetectors from visible to infrared spectral region. However, most of …

Growth and photoelectrochemical energy conversion of wurtzite indium phosphide nanowire arrays

N Kornienko, NA Gibson, H Zhang, SW Eaton, Y Yu… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen is a promising
strategy to absorb solar energy and directly convert it into a dense storage medium in the …

Nanophotonic integrated circuits from nanoresonators grown on silicon

R Chen, KW Ng, WS Ko, D Parekh, F Lu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Harnessing light with photonic circuits promises to catalyse powerful new technologies
much like electronic circuits have in the past. Analogous to Moore's law, complexity and …

Exploring the size limitations of wurtzite III–V film growth

P Staudinger, KE Moselund, H Schmid - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metastable crystal phases of abundant semiconductors such as III–Vs, Si, or Ge comprise
enormous potential to address current limitations in green light-emitting electrical diodes …

Nanopillar quantum well lasers directly grown on silicon and emitting at silicon-transparent wavelengths

F Lu, I Bhattacharya, H Sun, TTD Tran, KW Ng… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Future expansion of computing capabilities relies on a reduction of energy consumption in
silicon-based integrated circuits. A promising solution is to replace electrical wires with …

Coaxial GaAs-AlGaAs core-multishell nanowire lasers with epitaxial gain control

T Stettner, P Zimmermann, B Loitsch… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the growth and single-mode lasing operation of GaAs-AlGaAs core-
multishell nanowires (NW) with radial single and multiple GaAs quantum wells (QWs) as …