Nanowires are natural one-dimensional channels and offer new opportunities for advanced
electronic quantum transport experiments. We review recent progress on the synthesis of …

Selective area epitaxy (SAE) can be used to grow highly uniform III–V nanostructure arrays
in a fully controllable way and is thus of great interest in both basic science and device …

Disorder is the primary obstacle in the current Majorana nanowire experiments. Reducing
disorder or achieving ballistic transport is thus of paramount importance. In clean and …

Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor nanowires are promising candidates as quantum
information processing devices. The need for scalability and complex designs calls for the …

As the condensed matter analog of Majorana fermion, the Majorana zero-mode is well
known as a building block of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. This review …

Local geometric control of basic synthesis parameters, such as elemental composition, is
important for bottom-up synthesis and top-down device definition on-chip but remains a …

Semiconductor planar nanowire arrays (PNAs) are essential for achieving large-scale
device integration. Direct heteroepitaxy of PNAs on a flat substrate is constrained by the …

Topological quantum computing is based on the braiding of Majorana zero modes encoding
topological qubits. A promising candidate platform for Majorana zero modes is …

Strong spin–orbit semiconductor nanowires coupled to a superconductor are predicted to
host Majorana zero modes. Exchange (braiding) operations of Majorana modes form the …

Quasi-one-dimensional (1D) topological insulators hold the potential of forming the basis of
novel devices in spintronics and quantum computing. While exposure to ambient conditions …