Pronounced polarization anisotropy in semiconductor nanowires has been exploited to
achieve polarization-sensitive devices operating across the electromagnetic spectrum, from …

The discovery of magic-sized clusters as intermediates in the synthesis of colloidal quantum
dots has allowed for insight into formation pathways and provided atomically precise …

Semiconducting nanowires (NWs) offer the unprecedented opportunity to host different
crystal phases in a nanostructure, which enables the formation of polytypic heterostructures …

The development of bulk synthetic processes to prepare functional nanomaterials is crucial
to achieve progress in fundamental and applied science. Transition-metal chalcogenide …

One of the most powerful techniques to extract physical and chemical information of a
material is the light scattering. Opposite to x-ray scattering for instance, where an average of …

Definitive evidence for the direct band gap predicted for Wurtzite Gallium Phosphide (WZ
GaP) nanowires has remained elusive due to the lack of strong band-to-band luminescence …

Accessing fundamental structure-property correlations in ternary semiconductor nanowires
is a challenging endeavor often limited by large compositional inhomogeneities. Here, we …

Wurtzite InAs nanowire samples grown by chemical beam epitaxy have been analyzed by
photoluminescence spectroscopy. The nanowires exhibit two main optical emission bands …

Crystal phase and strain engineering in epitaxial nanowire (NW) heterostructures provide a
widely tunable functionality for future nanoscale light emitters and photodetectors. Thus …

We demonstrate experimentally nonequilibrium transport in unipolar quasi-1D hot electron
devices reaching the ballistic limit at room temperature. The devices are realized with …