Advances in Semiconductor Nanowires and Devices: Electrical and Sensing Properties
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 28
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Interests: beyond-CMOS devices; nanofabrication; interface chemistry, functionalisation, sensor performance and metrology for electronic devices
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Dear Colleagues,
Semiconductor nanowires have been the subject of research interest since the early 1960s with the discovery of silicon microwires or whiskers, and they have been actively investigated further for the last three decades. Their unique physical dimension, surface, and bulk properties enable a vast network of devices with applications in nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, thermoelectrics, energy conversion, and storage, as well as unusual applications for semiconductors such as biochemical sensors, drug delivery systems, and neural interfacing. Nanowire fabrication can usually be categorized as either bottom-up or top-down; the device concepts and architectures are numerous and vary significantly by application type. While group IV together with III-V compound semiconductor nanowires can be used across many different applications, nanowires based on other compound semiconductors as well as organic semiconductor nanowires have recently been introduced and niche applications have been found.
In the present Special Issue of Nanomaterials, we aim to highlight the current advances in developing the fundamental understanding of the electrical and sensing properties of the semiconductor nanowires and the growth, assembly, and manufacturing of electronic devices with applications in advanced electronics and sensing. In the present Special Issue, we invite contributions from leading groups in the field, aiming to give a balanced view of the current state of the art in this discipline.
Dr. Nikolay Petkov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanoelectronics
- sensing
- semiconductor nanowires
- growth
- assembly
- fabrications
- device concepts
- performance
- sensor testing
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