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 …

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 …

Large-scale synthesis of highly uniform silicon nanowire arrays using metal-assisted chemical etching

FJ Wendisch, M Rey, N Vogel… - Chemistry of Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
The combination of metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) with colloidal lithography has
emerged as a simple and cost-effective approach to nanostructure silicon. It is especially …

Composition of wide bandgap semiconductor materials and nanostructures measured by atom probe tomography and its dependence on the surface electric field

L Mancini, N Amirifar, D Shinde, I Blum… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Atom probe tomography allows for three-dimensional reconstruction of the elemental
distribution in materials at the nanoscale. However, the measurement of the chemical …

Highly sensitive ammonia gas detection at room temperature by integratable silicon nanowire field-effect sensors

X Song, R Hu, S Xu, Z Liu, J Wang, Y Shi… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Toxic gas monitoring at room temperature (RT) is of great concern to public health and
safety, where ultrathin silicon nanowires (SiNWs), with diameter< 80 nm, are ideal one …

[HTML][HTML] Non-equilibrium induction of tin in germanium: towards direct bandgap Ge1−xSnx nanowires

S Biswas, J Doherty, D Saladukha, Q Ramasse… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The development of non-equilibrium group IV nanoscale alloys is critical to achieving new
functionalities, such as the formation of a direct bandgap in a conventional indirect bandgap …

Morphology-graded silicon nanowire arrays via chemical etching: Engineering optical properties at the nanoscale and macroscale

FJ Wendisch, M Abazari, H Mahdavi… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report on a quick, simple, and cost-effective solution-phase approach to prepare
centimeter-sized morphology-graded vertically aligned Si nanowire arrays. Gradients in the …

Silicon nanostructures for solar-driven catalytic applications

D Liu, J Ma, R Long, C Gao, Y Xiong - Nano Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Silicon nanostructures exhibit prominent properties in solar energy conversion, which
particularly offer tunable light harvesting and facile surface modification in comparison with …

Epitaxial Ge0.81Sn0.19 Nanowires for Nanoscale Mid-Infrared Emitters

MS Seifner, A Dijkstra, J Bernardi, A Steiger-Thirsfeld… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Highly oriented Ge0. 81Sn0. 19 nanowires have been synthesized by a low-temperature
chemical vapor deposition growth technique. The nanostructures form by a self-seeded …

Atomic gold–enabled three-dimensional lithography for silicon mesostructures

Z Luo, Y Jiang, BD Myers, D Isheim, J Wu… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Three-dimensional (3D) mesostructured semiconductors show promising properties and
applications; however, to date, few methods exist to synthesize or fabricate such materials …