Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Flexible Technologies

CHAPTER 2

Chemically SynthesizedSemiconductor Nanowires forHigh-Performance Electronicsand Optoelectronics

Xiangfeng Duan¹ and Yu Huang²

¹Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

²Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

CONTENTS

Introduction

Semiconductor nanowire building blocks

Nanowire nanoelectronics

Nanoscale photonics and optoelectronics

Nanowire thin-film electronics

Conclusion

References

INTRODUCTION

Semiconductor electronics have experienced enormous growth and have become increasingly pervasive in many aspects of our daily lives over the past several decades. The advancement of semiconductor electronics is rapidly ...