Silicon nanostructures for photonics and photovoltaics

F Priolo, T Gregorkiewicz, M Galli, TF Krauss - Nature nanotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

Structuring of Si into multiple scales by metal‐assisted chemical etching

RP Srivastava, DY Khang - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Structuring Si, ranging from nanoscale to macroscale feature dimensions, is essential for
many applications. Metal‐assisted chemical etching (MaCE) has been developed as a …

[HTML][HTML] Strongly enhanced light trapping in a two-dimensional silicon nanowire random fractal array

B Fazio, P Artoni, M Antonia Iatì, C D'andrea… - Light: Science & …, 2016 - nature.com
We report on the unconventional optical properties exhibited by a two-dimensional array of
thin Si nanowires arranged in a random fractal geometry and fabricated using an …

Inverse metal-assisted chemical etching produces smooth high aspect ratio InP nanostructures

SH Kim, PK Mohseni, Y Song, T Ishihara, X Li - Nano letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
Creating high aspect ratio (AR) nanostructures by top-down fabrication without surface
damage remains challenging for III–V semiconductors. Here, we demonstrate uniform, array …

One-dimensional Si/Ge nanowires and their heterostructures for multifunctional applications—a review

SK Ray, AK Katiyar, AK Raychaudhuri - Nanotechnology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Remarkable progress has been made in the field of one-dimensional semiconductor
nanostructures for electronic and photonic devices. Group-IV semiconductors and their …

Inorganic nanosystems for therapeutic delivery: Status and prospects

CS Kim, GY Tonga, D Solfiell, VM Rotello - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Inorganic nanomaterials have an array of structural and physical properties that can be used
in therapeutic delivery systems. The sizes, shapes, and surfaces of inorganic nanomaterials …

New generation of ultrasensitive label-free optical Si nanowire-based biosensors

A Irrera, AA Leonardi, C Di Franco, MJ Lo Faro… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the realization of the first label-free optical biosensor based on the room
temperature luminescence of silicon nanowires (NWs) tested for the selective detection of C …

Photonic–plasmonic coupling of GaAs single nanowires to optical nanoantennas

A Casadei, EF Pecora, J Trevino, C Forestiere… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We successfully demonstrate the plasmonic coupling between metal nanoantennas and
individual GaAs nanowires (NWs). In particular, by using dark-field scattering and second …

[HTML][HTML] TiO2-coated nanostructures for dye photo-degradation in water

V Scuderi, G Impellizzeri, L Romano, M Scuderi… - Nanoscale Research …, 2014 - Springer
The photocatalytic efficiency of a thin-film TiO 2-coated nanostructured template is studied
by dye degradation in water. The nanostructured template was synthesized by metal …

GaAs pillar array-based light emitting diodes fabricated by metal-assisted chemical etching

PK Mohseni, S Hyun Kim, X Zhao… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate GaAs pillar array-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) with axial pin junctions
fabricated using a room-temperature metal-assisted chemical etching (MacEtch) method …