Thermal-catalytic gas processing is integral to many current industrial processes. Ever-
increasing demands on conversion and energy efficiencies are a strong driving force for the …

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 …

This paper summarizes some of the essential aspects of silicon‐nanowire growth and of
their electrical properties. In the first part, a brief description of the different growth …

Semiconductor nanowires are attracting intense interest as a promising material for solar
energy conversion for the new‐generation photovoltaic (PV) technology. In particular, silicon …

Semiconductor nanowires have demonstrated exciting properties for nanophotonics,
sensors, energy technologies, and end-of-roadmap and beyond-roadmap electronic …

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 …

We have formed compositionally abrupt interfaces in silicon-germanium (Si-Ge) and Si-SiGe
heterostructure nanowires by using solid aluminum-gold alloy catalyst particles rather than …

Seed particles of elements or compounds which may or may not form alloys are now used
extensively in promoting well-controlled nanowire growth. The technology has evolved …