Silicon-based Nanomaterials

1. Porous Silicon as Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Madhuri Thakur, Roderick Pernites, Steve L. Sinsabaugh, Michael S. Wong, Sibani L. Biswal

2. The Development of Si and Ge-Based Nanomaterials for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anodes
Xiao-Liang Wang, Wei-Qiang Han

3. Light Trapping in Coaxial Nanowires of c-Si Cores and a-Si Shells
Jeong Il Oh, Wenfu Liu, Weiqiang Xie, Wenzhong Shen

4. Applications of Ordered Si Nanowire Array to Solar Energy Harvesting and NEMS
Yuerui Lu, Amit Lal

5. Synchrotron-Excited Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Silicon- and Carbon-Containing Quantum Dots in Low Dimensional SiO_2 Matrices
Anatoly F. Zatsepin, Evgeny A. Buntov

6. Silicon Nanoparticles-Based Light Emitting Capacitors
A. Morales Sánchez, J. Barreto, C. Domínguez Horna, M. Aceves Mijares, J. A. Luna López, L. Licea Jiménez

7. Electronic and Optical Properties of Silicon Carbide Nanostructures
Hung-Chung Hsueh, Guang-Yu Guo, Steven G. Louie

8. Plasma Enabled Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Nanostructures
Jinghua Fang, Igor Levchenko, Morteza Aramesh, Amanda E. Rider, Steven Prawer, Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

9. Catalyst-Free Chemical Vapor Deposition for Synthesis of SiC Nanowires with Controlled Morphology
Jyoti Prakash, Sunil Kumar Ghosh, Dakshinamoorthy Sathiyamoorthy

10. Adhesion and Indentation Fracture Behavior of Silicon Carbonitride Nanocomposite Coatings Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering
S. K. Mishra, A. S. Bhattacharyya

11. Impact of Defects and Doping on Electron Transport in SiCNTs
Sudhanshu Choudhary, S. Qureshi

12. Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of One-Dimensional Transition Metal Silicide Nanostructures
Guangwei She, Hailong Liu, Lixuan Mu, Wensheng Shi

13. Integration of Strain Free III–V Quantum Dots on Silicon
Stefano Sanguinetti, Sergio Bietti, Giovanni Isella

14. III–V Quantum-Dot Materials and Devices Monolithically Grown on Si Substrates
Huiyun Liu

15. Cubic GaN on Nanopatterned 3C-SiC/Si (001) Substrates
Ricarda Maria Kemper, Donat Josef As, Jörg K. N. Lindner

Keywords: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices, Optical and Electronic Materials, Nanoscale Science and Technology