Core/Shell Nanowires: Design and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 388
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Interests: epitaxy; crystal growth modeling; semiconductors; phase-field; nanostructures
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Dear Colleagues,
Core–shell nanowires are a unique kind of heterostructure, combining the peculiar properties of one-dimensional nanostructuring with the flexibility and tailoring opportunities offered by the integration of different materials. Intense research has arisen around this architecture in view of the potential breakthrough applications for next-generation technologies, from opto-electronics to quantum computing, photovoltaics, sensing, etc. The possibility of creating a wide variety of materials, semiconductors, metals and oxides in the form of core–shell nanowires is key for enabling such a broad spectrum of uses, driving a constant development of growth techniques, as well as models for the optimization and control of the process. Finding the subtle connections between the structure, geometry and material combination and the resulting properties is essential for tailoring the design and, eventually, exploring novel configurations targeting the application demands by, e.g., strain/band engineering, quantum confinement and phase-templating.
This Special Issue is intended as a recognition of the state-of-the-art and novel developments regarding core–shell nanowires and, as such, the scope covers all aspects related to their growth, characterization and application, main topics including:
- Growth experiments, deposition techniques and materials;
- Structural properties, defects and strain effects;
- Structure–properties relation and tunability;
- Characterization and measure of the material properties;
- Modeling and simulations;
- Applications and novel frontiers in micro-electronics, photonics, energy production and conversion, sensing, etc.
Scientists working in the field are invited to contribute to this Special Issue with original research manuscripts or reviews.
Dr. Roberto Bergamaschini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanowires
- core–shell
- epitaxy
- defects
- strain relaxation
- band engineering
- compositional segregation
- radial heterostructures
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