One-Dimensional Nanostructures

TIANYOU ZHAI, PhD, is a Faculty at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, P. R. China. His research interests include the controlled fabrication, novel properties and optoelectronic applications of semiconductor nanostructures.

JIANNIAN YAO, PhD, is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the chairman of the Chinese Chemical Society and the Vice President of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research focuses on opto-functional materials.

Foreword Preface Editors' Biographies 1. One-Dimensional Semiconductor Nanostructure Growth with Templates Zhang-Zhang and Stephan Senz 2. Metal-Ligand Systems for the Construction of One-Dimensional Nanostructures Ruben Mas-Balleste and Felix Zamora 3. Supercritical Fluid-Liquid-Solid (SFLS) Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires Brian Korgel 4. Colloidal Semiconductors Nanowires Zhen Li, Qiao Sun Zhonghua Zhu, Sean C. Smith and Max (Gaoqing) Lu 5. Core-Shell Effect on Nucleation and Growth of Epitaxial Silicide in Nanowire of Silicon Yi-Chia Chou and King-Ning Tu 6. Selected Properties of Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes H. S. S. Ramakrishna Matte, K. S. Subrahmanyam, A. Govindaraj and C. N. R. Rao 7. One-Dimensional Semiconductor Nanowire: Synthesis and Raman Scattering Jun Zhang, Jun Pan, Jian Wu and Qihua Xiong 8. Optical Properties and Applications of Hematite (alpha-Fe 2 O 3 ) Nanostructures Yichuan Ling, Damon A. Wheeler, Jin Zhong Zhang and Yat Li 9. Doping Effect on the Novel Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanowires Bingsuo Zou, Guozhang Dai, and Ruibin Liu 10. Quantum Confinement Phenomena in Bioinspired and Biological Peptide Nanostructures Gil Rosenman and Nadav Amdurskyb 11. One-Dimensional Nanostructures for Energy Harvesting Zhiyong Fan, Johnny C. Ho and Baoling Huang 12. p-n Junction Silicon Nanowire Arrays for Photovoltaic Applications Jun Luo and Jing Zhu 13. One-Dimensional Nanostructured Metal Oxides for Lithium-Ion Batteries Huiqiao Li, De Li and Haoshen Zhou 14. Carbon Nanotube Based High Performance Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices Lianmao Peng, Zhiyong Zhang, Yan Li and Sheng Wang 15. Properties and Devices of Single One Dimensional Nanostructure: Applications of Scanning Probe Microscopy Wei-Guang Xie, Jian-Bin Xu, and Jin An 16. Recent Advances in One-Dimensional Metal Oxide Nanostructures: Optical and Optoelectronic Applications Lei Liao and Xiangfeng Duan 17. Organic One-Dimensional Nanostructures: Construction and Optoelectronic Properties Yongsheng Zhao and Jiannian Yao 18. Controllable Growth and Assembly of One-Dimensional Structures of Organic Function Materials for Optoelectronic Applications Liang Jiang, Huanli Dong and Wenping Hu 19. Type-II Antimonide Based Superlattices, A One-Dimensional Bulk Semiconductor Manijeh Razeghi and Binh-Minh Nguyen 20. Quasi One-Dimensional Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Gas-Sensors Andrea Ponzoni, Guido Faglia and Giorgio Sberveglieri 21. One-Dimensional Nanostructures in Plasmonics Xuefeng Gu, Teng Qiu and Paul K. Chu 22. Lateral Metallic Nanostructures for Spintronics Marius V. Costache, Bart J. van Wees, and Sergio O. Valenzuela 23. One-Dimensional Inorganic Nanostructures for Field-Emitters Tianyou Zhai, Xi Wang, Liang Li, Yoshio Bando and Dmitri Goldberg 24. One-Dimensional Field-Effect Transistors Joachim Knoch 25. Nanowire Field Effect Transistors for Electrical Interfacing with Cells and Tissue Bozhi Tian

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