This has led to a host of nanowire photonic devices including photodetectors, chemical and gas sensors, waveguides, LEDs, microcavity lasers, solar cells and nonlinear optical converters.

Their role in developing high-efficiency solar cells, batteries, LEDs ... The ongoing research and development in nanowire technology promise a future where electronic devices are more efficient, ...

A polylysine pattern directs the dendrite and axon growth along the nanowire array during cell growth and ensures successful neuron–nanowire electrical contact. Measurements are made by ...

Imaging the molecules in a dividing cell's "spindle," a protein structure that extends from one side of the cell to the other ...

The iGaN Laboratory led by Haiding Sun at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has proposed a novel ...

May be used to accompany news coverage of the nanowire discovery. All other uses require express written permission from UVA Health System. Electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny ...

Battery cells with a lightning-quick charge time are ... Amprius made headlines last year with its silicon nanowire anode tech, supporting batteries that were touted as providing an 80% charge ...

Cancer cells utilize specific micro-ribonucleic acids ... have focused their efforts on nanowire-based miRNA extraction and machine learning (ML) analysis to detect cancer-associated miRNAs ...

The new work looked in particular at adopting superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), a class of sensor whose fast detection speeds have been used to improve the sensitivity of ...

More information: Kai Zou et al, Fabrication Development of High-Performance Fractal Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2024 ...

One notable type is the superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD). SNSPDs utilize ultra-thin superconducting wires that quickly transition from a superconducting state to a resistive ...