Probing the inner secrets of nanowires
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 09:31
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) are vanishingly small: NWs from a recent batch made by scientists in PML's Quantum Electronics and Photonics Division measure about 200 nanometers in diameter (less than 1/500th the thickness of a human hair) and 6 to 10 micrometers long, with embedded layers as thin as 3.3 nm. But despite their size, semiconductor NWs are poised to play a very large role in solid-state lighting, chemical sensors, and nanoscale scientific probes.