Symposium P-Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures

Semiconductor nanowires (IVs, III-Vs, II-VIs, oxides, II-Vs, chalcogenides…), continue to attract international interest for both fundamental and applied studies after some 15 years of intense and ongoing research effort. Nanowires allow for axial/radial heterostructure together with advanced doping schemes, and reliable positioning strategies, making them ideal nanoscale building blocks for next generation devices. Recent examples include efficient solar cells, nanolasers, transistors, quantum devices and bio-sensors. Despite these impressive achievements, the majority of nanowire devices reported to date are still based on standard geometries, heterostructures or doping schemes. Progress is still required in understanding their fundamental growth mechanisms, accessing/controlling their electronic and optical properties and extending their device functionalities beyond conventional limits.

This multidisciplinary symposium extends across physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology in all fundamental and applied aspects of semiconductor 1D nanostructures. It will focus on advanced semiconductor nanostructures: compositional homogeneity, interfaces, crystal phases, heterostructures, novel geometries and scalable positioning strategies. Integration and interconnection on flexible/cost-effective/biocompatible substrates are of interest for future applications. Emphasis on studies combining controlled synthesis with improved electronic, optical, sensing and/or energy generation/storage performance will be sought. Devices taking advantage of the current challenges faced by nanowires, such as their surface-dominated properties, crystal phase/composition variations and unconventional heterostructuring will be encouraged. New applications of nanowire-based devices to probe physical, chemical or biological system properties are also of interest to this symposium.

• Bottom-up or top-down synthesis of nanowires and related semiconductor nanostructures
• Energy conversion: photoelectrochemistry, thermoelectrics, photovoltaics
• Advanced axial and radial heterostructures (hybrid 0D-1D/2D/3D, facet-selective), interface engineering, ternary/quaternary alloys
• Doping strategies, including modulation doping, p-n junctions, tunnel junctions
• Novel methods in characterizing interfaces and properties in heterostructured nanowires and in hybrid 0D-1D/2D/3D assemblies
• Scalable positioning of these nanostructures into arrays/networks, integration on novel 2D/polycrystalline/flexible materials
• Optoelectronics: LEDs, lasers, photodetectors, nanoplasmonics; electronics: more-than-Moore, portable electronics, biocompatibility
• Quantum optics: single photon sources/detectors; quantum transport: spintronics, pseudo-particles, ballistic transport
• Biological, gas, chemical sensors
• Nanowire-cell interface and nanoelectronics applied to biological systems

• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _0 (ICN2, Barcelona, Spain)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _1 (Eindhoven University, Netherlands)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _2 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _3 (Lund University, Sweden)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _4 (Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _5 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _6 (University of Illinois, USA)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _7 (Harvard University, USA)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _8 (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _9 (Lund University, Sweden)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _10 (IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _11 (Rice University, USA)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _12 (University of Texas, USA)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _13 (Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, France)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _14 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• P_Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures _15 (University of Freiburg, Germany)