S The electrostatics of nanowire transistors are studied by solving the Poisson equation self-consistently with the equilibrium carrier statistics of the nanowire. For a one-dimensional, intrinsic nanowire channel, charge transfer from the metal contacts is important. We examine how the charge transfer depends on the insulator and the metal/semiconductor Schottky barrier height. We also show th...

We propose three-terminal core-shell (CS) silicon vertical nanowire tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs), which can be fabricated by conventional CMOS technology. CS TFETs show lower subthreshold swing (SS) and higher on-state current than conventional TFETs through their high surface-to-volume ratio, which increases carrier-tunneling region with no additional device area. The on-state cu...

Nickel-based hydroxide hierarchical nanoarrays (NiyM(OH)x HNAs M = Fe or Zn) are doped with non-noble transition metals to create nanostructures and regulate their activities for the oxygen evolution reaction. Catalytic performance in these materials depends on their chemical composition and the presence of nanostructures. These novel hierarchical nanostructures contain small secondary nanoshee...

Development of thin-film transparent conductors (TC) based on percolating networks of metal nanowires has leaped forward in recent years, owing to the improvement of nanowire synthetic methods and modeling efforts by several research groups. While silver nanowires are the first commercially viable iteration of this technology, systems based on copper nanowires are not far behind. Here we presen...

We investigate spin polarized electron transport in ultra-thin Si-Core/Ge-Shell and GeCore/Si-Shell nanowire system using semi-classical Monte Carlo simulation method. Depolarization of electron’s spin occurs in nanowire mainly due to D’yakonov-Perel dephasing (DP-mechanism) and Elliott-Yafet dephasing (EY-mechanism). We studied the dependence of spin dephasing on ultra-thin silicon core diamet...

Vertically aligned, catalyst-free semiconducting nanowires hold great potential for photovoltaic applications, in which achieving scalable synthesis and optimized optical absorption simultaneously is critical. Here, we report combining nanosphere lithography (NSL) and selected area metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (SA-MOCVD) for the first time for scalable synthesis of vertically aligned...

In a two-terminal Au/hexagonal WO3 nanowire/Au device, ions drifting or carriers self-trapping under external electrical field will modulate the Schottky barriers between the nanowire and electrodes, and then result in memristive effect. When there are water molecules adsorbed on the surface of WO3 nanowire, hydrogen ions will generate near the positively-charged electrode and transport in the ...

We report the fabrication and optical response of boron-doped single silicon nanowire-based metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector. Typical single nanowire devices with diameter of ∼80-100 nm and electrode spacing of ∼1 μm were made using electron-beam lithography from nanowires, grown by a metal-assisted chemical etching process. A high responsivity, of the order of 10(4) A W(-1), was observe...

It has been shown in recent experiments that electronic transport through a gold monatomic nanowire is dissipative above a threshold voltage due to excitation of phonons via the electron-phonon interaction. We address that data by computing, via density functional theory, the zone boundary longitudinal phonon frequency of a perfect monatomic nanowire during its mechanical elongation. The theore...