There are growing concerns over the environmental, climate, and health impacts caused by
using non‐renewable fossil fuels. The utilization of green energy, including solar and wind …

The recent rise of semiconductor nanowires opens new opportunities for realizing high
efficiency photovoltaic devices at low cost due to the unique one-dimensional structure with …

Research on silicon nanowires has developed rapidly in recent years. This can best be
inferred from the sharply increasing number of publications in this field. In 2008, more than …

Nanoscale inorganic materials such as quantum dots (0-dimensional) and one-dimensional
(1D) structures, such as nanowires, nanobelts and nanotubes, have gained tremendous …

The tremendous interest in nanoscale structures such as quantum dots (zero-dimension)
and wires (quasi-one-dimension) stems from their size-dependent properties. One …

In this contribution, we outline oxide‐assisted growth (OAG)(distinct from the conventional
metal‐catalytic vapor–liquid–solid (VLS) process) for the growth of nanostructured materials …

The role of quantum confinement (QC) in Si and Ge nanostructures (NSs) including quantum
dots, quantum wires, and quantum wells is assessed under a wide variety of fabrication …

Over the past decade, synthesized nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotube, nanoparticle,
quantum dot, and nanowire, have already made breakthroughs in various fields, including …

Semiconductor nanowires have become an important building block for nanotechnology.
The growth of semiconductor nanowires using a metal catalyst via the vapor–liquid–solid …

Nanotechnology is a culmination of many facets of scientific and technological
developments in the nanorealm, including nanofabrication, nanomachineries, quantum …