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We calculate the resistance and mean free path in long metallic and semiconducting silicon nanowires (SiNWs) using two different numerical approaches: A real space Kubo method and a recursive Green's function method. We compare the two…
We supplement our previous observations of the shell effect in alkali-metal nanowires (Li, Na, K) with data extended to the heavy alkalis Rb and Cs. Our observations include: i) a non-monotonous dependence of conductance-histogram peak…
Controlled and uniform assembly of "bottom-up" nanowire (NW) materials with high scalability has been one of the significant bottleneck challenges facing the potential integration of nanowires for both nano and macro electronic circuit…
We have fabricated indium-doped ZnO (IZO) nanowires (NWs) and carried out 4-probe electrical-transport measurements at low temperatures. The NWs reveal charge conduction behavior characteristic of disordered metals. In addition to the $T$…
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This work implements a hybrid device based on a semiconductor quantum dot embedded within a nanowire to bridge a non-continuous curved waveguide structure. The geometry takes advantage of evanescent coupling between the photonic structures…
From first-principles calculations, we predict that transition metal (TM) atom doped silicon nanowires have a half-metallic ground state. They are insulators for one spin-direction, but show metallic properties for the opposite spin…
The search for miniaturized components for nonlinear optical processes needs a way to overcome the efficiency loss due to the effective size reduction of the active medium. We investigate here a combination of a nanosized nonlinear…
We study thermal rectification in single-walled carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) by using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) method. It is found that the horns with the bigger top angles show larger asymmetric heat transport due to the larger…
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When two-dimensional atomic layers of different materials are brought into close proximity to form van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, interactions between adjacent layers significantly influence their physicochemical properties. These…
Multiple spin density waves and related vortex-type magnetic structures in the itinerant electron system with inversion symmetry have been investigated on the basis of the Hubbard model and the generalized Hartree-Fock approximation…
The plasmon hybridization theory is based on a quasi-electrostatic approximation of the Maxwell's equations. It does not take into account magnetic interactions, retardation effects, and radiation losses. Magnetic interactions play a…
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Broken symmetries induce strong nonlinear optical responses in materials and at interfaces. Twist angle can give complete control over the presence or lack of inversion symmetry at a crystal interface, and is thus an appealing knob for…
Semiconductor nanowires (NWires) experience stress and charge transfer by their environment and impurity atoms. In return, the environment of NWires experiences a NWire stress response which may lead to propagated strain and change in shape…
High-harmonic generation (HHG), which is generation of multiple optical harmonic light, is an unconventional nonlinear optical phenomenon beyond perturbation regime. HHG, which was initially observed in gaseous media, has recently been…
We have studied the effect of thermal effects on the structural and transport response of Ag atomic-size nanowires generated by mechanical elongation. Our study involves both time-resolved atomic resolution transmission electron microscopy…
Using concepts from fluid dynamics, a partial differential equation for the shape evolution of a metallic nanowire is derived from a semiclassical energy functional that includes electron-shell effects. A rich dynamics, involving movement…