Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

Nanowires are filamentary crystals with a tailored diameter that can be obtained using a
plethora of different synthesis techniques. In this review, we focus on the vapor phase …

Controlled formation of non-equilibrium crystal structures is one of the most important
challenges in crystal growth. Catalytically grown nanowires are ideal systems for studying …

Nucleation theory provides a powerful tool for growth modeling of a variety of objects: from
liquid droplets to thin solid films and biological structures. Theoretical approaches based on …

Phase engineering of nanomaterials (PEN) is an emerging field that aims to tailor the
physicochemical properties of nanomaterials by precisely manipulating their crystal phases …

The main challenge for light-emitting diodes is to increase the efficiency in the green part of
the spectrum. Gallium phosphide (GaP) with the normal cubic crystal structure has an …

III–V nanowires (NWs) have been envisioned as nanoscale materials for next-generation
technology with good functionality, superior performance, high integration ability and low …

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

We report a systematic study of the relationship between crystal quality and electrical
properties of InAs nanowires grown by MOVPE and MBE, with crystal structure varying from …

By utilizing the reduced contact area of nanowires, we show that epitaxial growth of a broad
range of semiconductors on graphene can in principle be achieved. A generic atomic model …