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Publications

  1. Electron Inversion and Tunneling at Silicon Thermal Oxide Interfaces for Solar-Driven Molecular Catalysis to Syngas

  2. Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Hybrid Perovskites

  3. Phase-resolving spin-wave microscopy using infrared strobe light

  4. Transforming science labs into automated factories of discovery

  5. Hybrid magnonics with localized spoof surface-plasmon polaritons

  6. Fast Catalysis at Low Overpotential: Designing Efficient Dicationic Re(bpy2+)(CO)3I Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

  7. Trust Not Verify? The Critical Need for Data Curation Standards in Materials Informatics

  8. Covalent Functionalization of Silicon with Plasma-Grown “Fuzzy” Graphene: Robust Aqueous Photoelectrodes for CO2 Reduction by Molecular Catalysts

  9. Magnon-photon coupling in an opto-electro-magnonic oscillator

  10. Understanding the Electronic Transport of Al–Si and Al–Ge Nanojunctions by Exploiting Temperature-Dependent Bias Spectroscopy

  11. Nanoscale Reconfigurable Si Transistors: From Wires to Sheets and Unto Multi‐Wire Channels

  12. Coordination of copper within a crystalline carbon nitride and its catalytic reduction of CO2

  13. Combinatorial split-ring and spiral metaresonator for efficient magnon-photon coupling

  14. Monolayer-like Exciton Recombination Dynamics of Multilayer MoSe2 Observed by Pump–Probe Microscopy

  15. Epitaxially Grown Silicon Nanowires with a Gold Molecular Adhesion Layer for Core/Shell Structures with Compact Mie and Plasmon Resonances

  16. Omega-Gate Silicon Nanowire Geometric Diodes with Reconfigurable Self-Switching Operation and THz Rectification

  17. Optical Nonlinearity in Silicon Nanowires Enabled by Bound States in the Continuum

  18. Identifying a ‘Raoult’s Law’ Relationship to Modulate the Stoichiometry of Hybrid Perovskite Films by Amino-Deliquescence/Efflorescence in Mixed Amine Vapors

  19. Multi-Electron Transfer at H-Terminated p-Si Electrolyte Interfaces: Large Photovoltages under Inversion Conditions

  20. Influence of Geometry on Quasi-Ballistic Behavior in Silicon Nanowire Geometric Diodes

  21. In Situ Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared Spectroelectrochemistry (ATR-IR-SEC) for the Characterization of Molecular Redox Processes on Surface-Proximal Doped Silicon ATR Crystal Working Electrodes

  22. Water splitting with silicon p–i–n superlattices suspended in solution

  23. Research Briefings | Designer Silicon Nanowires Produce Hydrogen from Water and Light

  24. Synthesis and Surface Attachment of Molecular Re(I) Complexes Supported by Functionalized Bipyridyl Ligands

  25. Aqueous Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction to CO and Methanol over a Silicon Photocathode Functionalized with a Cobalt Phthalocyanine Molecular Catalyst

  26. Reconfigurable Complementary and Combinational Logic Based on Monolithic and Single-Crystalline Al-Si Heterostructures

  27. Monolithic and Single-Crystalline Aluminum–Silicon Heterostructures

  28. Unveiling the complex configurational landscape of the intralayer cavities in a crystalline carbon nitride

  29. Influence of Surface and Structural Variations in Donor–Acceptor–Donor Sensitizers on Photoelectrocatalytic Water Splitting

  30. Lithographically Patterning Hybrid Perovskite Single Crystals by Surface-Engineered Amino-Deliquescence/Efflorescence

  31. Amino-deliquescence and Amino-efflorescence of Methylammonium Lead Iodide

  32. Electrostatic Tip Effects in Scanning Probe Microscopy of Nanostructures

  33. Enabling Aqueous NiO Photocathodes by Passivating Surface Sites that Facilitate Proton-Coupled Charge Transfer
  34. Organic Chromophores Designed for Hole Injection into Wide-Band-Gap Metal Oxides for Solar Fuel Applications
  35. Remote nongenetic optical modulation of neuronal activity using fuzzy graphene
  36. Abrupt degenerately-doped silicon nanowire tunnel junctions
  37. Ratcheting Quasi-ballistic Electrons in Silicon Geometric Diodes at Room Temperature
  38. Semi-transparent, Flexible, and Electrically Conductive Silicon Mesh by Capillarity-driven Welding of Vapor-liquid-solid-grown Nanowires over Large Areas
  39. Cation Effects in p-Type Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
  40. Geometric Nanophotonics: Light Management in Single Nanowires through Morphology
  41. Observation of Phonon Propagation in Germanium Nanowires Using Femtosecond Pump–Probe Microscopy
  42. Optical Bound States in the Continuum with Nanowire Geometric Superlattices
  43. Solvent-Engineered Stress in Nanoscale Materials
  44. Tuning Electroluminescence from a Plasmonic Cavity-Coupled Silicon Light Source
  45. Interplay of Surface Recombination and Diode Geometry for the Performance of Axial p-i-n Nanowire Solar Cells
  46. Mie-Coupled Bound Guided States in Nanowire Geometric Superlattices
  47. Self-Catalyzed Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Lead Halide Nanowires and Conversion to Hybrid Perovskites
  48. Enhancement of Light Absorption in Silicon Nanowire Photovoltaic Devices with Dielectric and Metallic Grating Structures
  49. Mapping Free Carriers in Multijunction Silicon Nanowires Using Infrared Near-Field Optical Microscopy
  50. Nature Nanotechnology News and Views -- Optoelectronics: Letting Photons out of the Gate
  51. Encoding Highly Non-Equilibrium Boron Concentrations and Abrupt Morphology in P-Type/N-Type Silicon Nanowire Superlattices
  52. Interfacial Electron Transfer Yields in Dye-Sensitized NiO Photocathodes Correlated to Excited-State Dipole Orientation of Ruthenium Chromophores
  53. Probing Intrawire, Interwire, and Diameter-Dependent Variations in Silicon Nanowire Surface Trap Density with Pump–Probe Microscopy
  54. Material Informatics Driven Design and Experimental Validation of Lead Titanate as an Aqueous Solar Photocathode
  55. Designing Morphology in Epitaxial Silicon Nanowires: The Role of Gold, Surface Chemistry, and Phosphorus Doping
  56. All-in-one Derivatized Tandem p+n-Silicon-SnO2/TiO2 Water Splitting Photoelectrochemical Cell
  57. Barrierless Switching between a Liquid and Superheated Solid Catalyst during Nanowire Growth
  58. Capillarity-Driven Welding of Semiconductor Nanowires for Crystalline and Electrically Ohmic Junctions
  59. Passivation of Nickel Vacancy Defects in Nickel Oxide Solar Cells by Targeted Atomic Deposition of Boron
  60. Chemically Engraving Semiconductor Nanowires: Using Three-Dimensional Nanoscale Morphology to Encode Functionality from the Bottom Up
  61. Site-Selective Passivation of Defects in NiO Solar Photocathodes by Targeted Atomic Deposition
  62. Understanding the Vapor-Liquid-Solid Mechanism of Si Nanowire Growth and Doping to Synthetically Encode Precise Nanoscale Morphology

  63. Designing Plasmon-Enhanced Thermochromic Films Using a Vanadium Dioxide Nanoparticle Elastomeric Composite
  64. Imaging Spatial Variations in the Dissipation and Transport of Thermal Energy within Individual Silicon Nanowires Using Ultrafast Microscopy
  65. Compositionally-Tunable Mechanochemical Synthesis of ZnxCo3-xO4 Nanoparticles for Mesoporous p-Type Photocathodes
  66. Doubling Absorption in Nanowire Solar Cells with Dielectric Shell Optical Antennas
  67. Encoding Abrupt and Uniform Dopant Profiles in Vapor-Liquid-Solid Nanowires by Suppressing the Reservoir Effect of the Liquid Catalyst
  68. Sensitized Zinc Cobalt Oxide Spinel P-type Photoelectrodes
  69. Reversible Strain-Induced Electron-Hole Recombination in Silicon Nanowires Observed with Femtosecond Pump-Probe Microscopy
  70. Waveguide Scattering Microscopy for Dark-Field Imaging and Spectroscopy of Photonic Nanostructures
  71. Hierarchically-Structured NiO Nanoplatelets as Mesoscale p-Type Photocathodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
  72. Imaging Charge Separation and Carrier Recombination in Nanowire p-i-n Junctions Using Ultrafast Microscopy
  73. Identifying Crystallization and Incorporation Limited Regimes During Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Si Nanowires
  74. Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Individual Silicon Nanowires: Characterization of Diameter-Dependent Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination with Pump-Probe Microscopy
  75. Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of Silicon Nanowire Ensembles: The Impact of Geometrical Heterogeneity on Charge Carrier Lifetime
  76. Synthetically Encoding 10-nm Morphology in Silicon Nanowires
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Funding

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Department of Energy (DOE)
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