Thermal Stability of Strained Nanowires

Characterization of InAs nanowires strained by AFM manipulation

Optical Properties of Strained Wurtzite Gallium Phosphide Nanowires

Wurtzite gallium phosphide (WZ GaP) has been predicted to exhibit a direct bandgap in the green spectral range. Optical transitions, however, are only weakly allowed by the symmetry of the bands. While efficient luminescence has been experimentally shown, the nature of the transitions is not yet clear. Here we apply tensile strain up to 6% and investigate the evolution of the photoluminescence ...

Theoretical Investigation of Biaxially Tensile-Strained Germanium Nanowires

We theoretically investigate highly tensile-strained Ge nanowires laterally on GaSb. Finite element method has been used to simulate the residual elastic strain in the Ge nanowire. The total energy increment including strain energy, surface energy, and edge energy before and after Ge deposition is calculated in different situations. The result indicates that the Ge nanowire on GaSb is apt to gr...

Thermal Instability of Metal Nanowires

Gesellschaft für Schwerionenfosrchung (GSI), Planckstr. 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany University of Marburg, Department of Chemistry and Materials Science Center, HansMeerwig-Str., D-35032, Marburg, Germany Darmstadt University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science, Petersenstr. 23, D64287 Darmstadt, Germany Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Heisenbergstr. 3, D-70569 Stuttgart, ...

Tunable thermal transport and thermal rectification in strained graphene nanoribbons

K. G. S. H. Gunawardana,1,* Kieran Mullen,1 Jiuning Hu,2 Yong P. Chen,2,3 and Xiulin Ruan4 1Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73069, USA 2Birk Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA 3Birk Nanote...