Semiconductor nanowires are widely considered as the building blocks that revolutionized
many areas of nanosciences and nanotechnologies. The unique features in nanowires …

Advances in nanofabrication, characterization tools, and the drive to commercialize
nanotechnology products have contributed to the significant increase in research on …

Over the past decades extensive research has been carried out to study the lasing
characteristics of random media. Some unexpected phenomena of random lasing action …

The current-voltage characteristics of thin wires are often observed to be nonlinear, and this
behavior has been ascribed to Schottky barriers at the contacts. We present electronic …

The fabrication process of ZnO-nanowire-inserted GaN/ZnO heterojunction light-emitting
diodes (LEDs) by formation of p+ aN film/n-ZnO nanowire array/n+ ZnO film structures, has …

An air-gap field-effect transistor (FET) was prepared by selectively aligning a Ni-capped ZnO
nanowire in a magnetic field on a pre-fabricated electrode patterns formed by lithography. It …

A technique of measuring contact resistance between an individual nanotube and a
deposited metallic film is described. Using laser ablation to sequentially shorten the contact …

Microscope projection photolithography (MPP) offers a versatile method of prototyping
microscale devices. The benefits of MPP include the ability to create features at a variety of …

Electrical transport in semiconductor nanowires is commonly measured in a field effect
transistor configuration, with lithographically defined source, drain and in some cases, top …

The size-dependent persistent photocurrent (PPC), which refers to a photocurrent persisting
for a long time after the excitation light source is terminated, has been investigated in m-axial …