Transparent conductive films (TCFs) are irreplaceable components in most optoelectronic
applications such as solar cells, organic light‐emitting diodes, sensors, smart windows, and …

Templating is one of the most important techniques for the controlled synthesis of
nanostructured materials. This powerful tool uses a pre-existing guide with desired …

This review provides an overview of area-selective thin film deposition (ASD) with a primary
focus on vapor-phase thin film formation via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic …

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 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 …

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

We report a systematic study of carrier dynamics in Al x Ga1–x As-passivated GaAs
nanowires. With passivation, the minority carrier diffusion length (L diff) increases from 30 to …

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 …

We report on the epitaxial growth of large-area position-controlled self-catalyzed GaAs
nanowires (NWs) directly on Si by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Nanohole patterns are …

Conductive, amorphous TiO2 coatings deposited by atomic-layer deposition, in combination
with a sputter deposited NiCrOx oxygen-evolution catalyst, have been used to protect Si …