Structured nanowires and cylinders (silicon/germanium) for possible applications in electronic energy
Afshin Rashid
Abstract
Note: Strings and micro cylinders of structured nanowires (silicon/germanium) are used for possible applications in energy, electronics, optics and other fields.Nanowires (Si Silicon / Germanium Gi) , narrow structures whose diameter is only a few billionths of a meter but thousands or millions of times longer. They exist in various forms—made of metals, semiconductors, insulators, and organic compounds—and are used for applications in the fields of electronics, energy conversion, optics, and chemical sensing. Because of their extreme thinness, nanowires with a (Si Silicon / Germanium Gi) structure are essentially one-dimensional. Nanowires are quasi-one-dimensional materials, "their two dimensions are on the nanometer scale." This one-dimensionality confers distinct electrical and optical properties. For one thing, this means that the electrons and photons in these nanowires experience "confined quantum effects." However , unlike other materials that produce such quantum effects, such as quantum dots, the length of nanowires allows them to communicate with other macroscopic devices and the outside world.