Semiconductor nanowires are a class of materials recently gaining increasing interest for
solar cell applications. In this article we review the development of the field with a special …

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

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 …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a new class of materials and a shift from
conventional two-dimensional bulk thin films to three-dimensional devices. Unlike thin film …

Because of unique structural, optical, and electrical properties, solar cells based on
semiconductor nanowires are a rapidly evolving scientific enterprise. Various approaches …

Multijunction solar cells provide us a viable approach to achieve efficiencies higher than the
Shockley–Queisser limit. Due to their unique optical, electrical, and crystallographic …

Solar energy is abundant, clean, and renewable, making it an ideal energy source. Solar
cells are a good option to harvest this energy. However, it is difficult to balance the cost and …

III–V solar cells in the nanowire geometry might hold significant synthesis-cost and device-
design advantages as compared to thin films and have shown impressive performance …

Periodic arrays of n-GaAs nanowires have been grown by selective-area metal–organic
chemical-vapor deposition on Si and GaAs substrates. The optical absorption characteristics …

III–V semiconductor nanowire arrays show promise as a platform for next-generation solar
cells. However, the theoretical efficiency limit for converting the energy of sunlight into …