Observation of ultraviolet photothermoelectric bipolar impulse in gallium-based heterostructure nanowires by Jinjie Zhu, Qing Cai, Pengfei Shao, Shengjie Zhang, Haifan You, Hui Guo, Jin Wang, Junjun Xue, Bin Liu, Hai Lu, Youdou Zheng, Rong Zhang, Dunjun Chen

“…Here, we introduce a GaON/GaN heterostructure-nanowire ultraviolet electrochemical cell of observing a photothermoelectric bipolar impulse characteristic. …”
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Phase Transition and Optical Properties for Ultrathin KNbO3 Nanowires by Shulin Yang, Yongming Hu, Shengfu Wang, Haoshuang Gu, Yu Wang

“…Fascicular KNbO3 nanowires with tetragonal perovskite structures and ultrasmall diameters are synthesized by hydrothermal route at about 150°C for 24 hours. …”
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Mesoporous SnO2 Nanowires: Synthesis and Ethanol Sensing Properties by Shan-Hong Li, Fang-Fang Meng, Zhong Chu, Tao Luo, Fu-Min Peng, Zhen Jin

“…XRD, SEM, and HRTEM were used to characterize the synthesized mesoporous SnO2 nanowires. The sensing property of the mesoporous SnO2 nanowires in ethanol detection also has been studied. …”
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Breaking the wire: the impact of critical length on melting pathways in silver nanowires by K M Ridings, E E L Vaka’uta, S M Croot

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Preparation and photoelectric properties of Si:B nanowires with thermal evaporation method. by Yang Feng, Ping Liang, Ziwen Xia, Weiye Yang, Hongyan Peng, Shihua Zhao

“…We have successfully prepared a significant number of nanowires from non-toxic silicon sources. Compared to the SiO silicon source used in most other articles, our preparation method is much safer. …”
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Fluorophore signal detection and imaging enhancement in high refractive index nanowire biosensors by Nicklas Anttu

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Vertical Silicon Nanowire Platform for Low Power Electronics and Clean Energy Applications by D.-L. Kwong, X. Li, Y. Sun, G. Ramanathan, Z. X. Chen, S. M. Wong, Y. Li, N. S. Shen, K. Buddharaju, Y. H. Yu, S. J. Lee, N. Singh, G. Q. Lo

“…This paper reviews the progress of the vertical top-down nanowire technology platform developed to explore novel device architectures and integration schemes for green electronics and clean energy applications. …”
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Capillary condensation-driven growth of perovskite nanowire arrays for multi-functional photodetector by Gangjian Hu, Jiajun Guo, Jizhong Jiang, Lei Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Hongxu Chen, Gangning Lou, Wei Wei, Liang Shen

“…However, the limited wettability of liquids poses challenges for achieving large-scale and high-quality perovskite nanowire arrays. To address this issue, we develop a facile method utilizing capillary condensation to grow high-quality centimeter-scale perovskite nanowire arrays. …”
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Formation and Device Application of Ge Nanowire Heterostructures via Rapid Thermal Annealing by Jianshi Tang, Chiu-Yen Wang, Faxian Xiu, Yi Zhou, Lih-Juann Chen, Kang L. Wang

“…We reviewed the formation of Ge nanowire heterostructure and its field-effect characteristics by a controlled reaction between a single-crystalline Ge nanowire and Ni contact pads using a facile rapid thermal annealing process. …”
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Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Chlorophylls in Light-Harvesting Complexes Coupled to Silver Nanowires by Dorota Kowalska, Bartosz Krajnik, Maria Olejnik, Magdalena Twardowska, Nikodem Czechowski, Eckhard Hofmann, Sebastian Mackowski

“…The results indicate that for the peridinin-chlorophyll complexes placed in the vicinity of the silver nanowires we observe higher intensities of fluorescence emission as compared to the reference sample, where no nanowires are present. …”
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THz Scattering and Tunable Plasmonic Resonances from Graphene-Coated Gold Nanowires by Faroq Razzaz, M. N. Akram, M. Z. Yaqoob

“…The Qext under different parameters of graphene, diameter of metallic nanowire (R) and angle of incidence θi, has been computed. …”
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Ultrafast Probe of Carrier Diffusion and Nongeminate Processes in a Single CdSSe Nanowire by Peter S. Eldridge, Jolie C. Blake, Lars Gundlach

“…We measure ultrafast carrier dynamics in a single CdSSe nanowire at different excitation fluences using an ultrafast Kerr-gated microscope. …”
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Epitaxial growth of Pd clusters on N-doped Ag nanowires for oxygen reduction reaction by Qinhe Guan, Shiwei Sun, Xiaohang Ge, Fan Zhang, Lijie Qu, Chao Yin, Weiyong Yuan, Lianying Zhang

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Electrical behavior of n-GaAs Schottky nanowire in wide temperature range for different contacts by Souad Benykrelef, Sedik Mansouri, Hicham Helal, Abdelaziz Rabehi, Abdelaziz Joti, Zineb Benamara

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Tungsten/Platinum Hybrid Nanowire Growth via Field Emission Using Nanorobotic Manipulation by Zhan Yang, Masahiro Nakajima, Yasuhito Ode, Toshio Fukuda

“…By independently employing trimethylcyclopentadienyl platinum (CpPtMe3) and tungsten hexacarbonyl (W(CO)6) as precursors, the platinum nanowire grew on the tip of the MWCNT emitter. Tungsten nanowires then grew on the tip of the platinum nanowire. …”
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Optical Properties of GaAs Nanowires with an Electric Potential That Varies Inversely with the Square of the Radial Distance by Moletlanyi Tshipa

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Silicon Powder-Based Wafers for Low-Cost Photovoltaics: Laser Treatments and Nanowire Etching by G. Jia, J. Plentz, A. Gawlik, A. S. Azar, G. Stokkan, M. Syvertsen, P. A. Carvalho, J. Dellith, A. Dellith, G. Andrä, A. Ulyashin

“…It is established that (i) Si powder-based wafers with thicknesses ~180 μm can be fully (from the front to back side) or partly (subsurface region) remelted by a diode laser and grain sizes in laser-treated regions can be increased; (ii) a high-quality top layer can be fabricated by crystallization of an additional a-Si layer deposited by e-beam evaporation on top of the pc-Si; and (iii) silicon nanowires can be formed by metal-assisted wet chemical etching (MAWCE) of polished Si powder-based wafers and as-cut wafers irradiated with medium laser power, while a surface texturing on the as-cut pc-Si wafers occur, and no nanowires can form in the region subject to a liquid phase crystallization (LPC) caused by high-power laser treatments.…”
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Step-necking growth of silicon nanowire channels for high performance field effect transistors by Lei Wu, Zhiyan Hu, Lei Liang, Ruijin Hu, Junzhuan Wang, Linwei Yu

“…In this work, we demonstrate that ultrathin and short silicon nanowires channels can be created through a local-curvature-modulated catalytic growth, where a planar silicon nanowires is directed to jump over a crossing step. …”
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Multi-gate neuron-like transistors based on ensembles of aligned nanowires on flexible substrates by João Neto, Abhishek Singh Dahiya, Ravinder Dahiya

“…The v-FETs are obtained by deterministic assembly of ZnO nanowires on a flexible substrate using contactless dielectrophoresis method, followed metallization using conventional microfabrication steps. …”
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Investigation on the Tunable-Length Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Shou-Yi Kuo, Ming-Yang Hsieh, Hsin-I Lin

“…We had successfully fabricated ZnO-based nanowires by vapor transport method in the furnace tube. …”
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