Symposium NM1-Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices

Semiconducting nanowires are promising building blocks for many existing and emerging applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Depending on the composition of materials, semiconducting nanowires can be classified into group IV (Si or Ge), group III-V (GaAs, InP, InAs etc.), group II-VI (oxide or chalcogenides) or other nanowires with a semiconducting bandgap. With several decades of effort, semiconducting nanowire research has streamlined into several frontiers, namely nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanoelectronic-bio interfaces, optoelectronics and energy harvesting/conversion and storage. While the synthesis of semiconducting nanowires with controllable size seems trivial nowadays, the exquisite control of interfaces, superlattices or modulated heterostructures that lead to diverse multifunctionality with augmented performance is still demanded. More profound understanding of the charge carriers and their interactions among themselves or with other elemental excitations in both high temporal and spatial resolution is still required, which have important implications to many diverse applications in solar energy harvesting, energy storage, light-emitting devices and nanolasers as well as interfacing to biological applications. Innovative ideas or device concepts are still in great need for next generation smart and integrated nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices for biological scaffolds.

This symposium will focus on the state-of-the-art synthesis of semiconducting nanowires and their mechanistic understanding, structural/electrical/optical characterization, and their applications in various functional devices. Novel syntheses that offer exquisite control of size, anisotropy, interfaces, defects, doping, guided growth etc. will be encouraged. Experimental efforts in the fundamental understanding of the electronic and photonic microscopic processes that lead to enhanced performances in energy harvesting and conversion, electronic and optoelectronic devices are highly appreciated. We also look for computational and modeling investigations that provide new insight into the light-matter interactions in nanowires or nanowire arrays and heterostructures. Methods that direct the organization of nanowires into large area arrays or interconnected networks for flexible films or biological scaffolds will also be considered. Semiconducting nanowires have evolved into a highly disciplinary field with active researchers from various fields of physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering sciences and biology, therefore the inherent interdisciplinarity will be highly considered and leveraged with an aim cultivate innovative new directions during the conference.

• Compositional modulation, alloying or heterostructures
• Hierarchical structures such as arrays or networks
• Synthesis and fabrication of semiconducting nanowires at multi-length scale (1 – 100 nm), in-situ structural, chemical and physical characterization toward the mechanistic understanding
• Rational doping towards controlling of carrier density, modulation of bandgaps
• Device integration into transparent, flexible and stretchable electronic and photonic devices
• Modeling and computational research on light-matter interactions that exhibit important applications and implications to solar cells and light emitting devices
• Nanowire-based nanoelectronic- or nanophotonics-probes to biological interfaces
• Quantum transport in nanowires: Majorana fermions, quantum optics, spin physics; heat transport in individual nanowires.
• Sensors and actuators: mechanical, chemical, biological, optical, microfluidic
• Surface plasmonics using nanowires or interfacing nanowires to other plasmonic systems.
• Electronic and optoelectronic devices: light emitters, transistors, photonic and plasmonic nanolasers
• Energy harvesting, conversion and storage: photovoltaic (minority carrier or excitonic), thermoelectric, water splitting and artificial photosynthesis, batteries, supercapacitors
• Other non-conventional semiconducting nanowire, such as inorganic-organic or completely inorganic perovskite nanowires, chlorides or oxide nanowires.

• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _0 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _1 (Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _2 (Lund University, Sweden)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _3 (Fudan University, China)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _4 (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _5 (Lund University, Sweden)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _6 (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _7 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _8 (EPFL, Switzerland)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _9 (Lund University, United Kingdom)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _10 (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _11 (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _12 (Harvard University, USA)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _13 (Australia National University, Australia)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _14 (Hunan University, China)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _15 (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _16 (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _17 (Korea University, Republic of Korea)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _18 (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _19 (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _20 (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _21 (University of Chicago, USA)
• NM1_Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices _22 (University of Basel, Switzerland)