NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/adb041
Akiko Ueda, Hiroyuki Akinaga, Sapan Agarwal, Joseph A Hagmann, Shamik Das, Matthew J Marinella, An Chen
{"title":"Green materials in semiconductors: perspective from the IRDS beyond-CMOS roadmap.","authors":"Akiko Ueda, Hiroyuki Akinaga, Sapan Agarwal, Joseph A Hagmann, Shamik Das, Matthew J Marinella, An Chen","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb041","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Environmental, safety, health, and sustainability (ESHS) have become an indispensable issue in the semiconductor industry. The 'Beyond CMOS' chapter of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems roadmap introduces the concept of 'Green materials', emphasizing their importance for maintaining sustainability in semiconductor manufacturing. We discuss the current trends of emerging architectures and devices in the perspective of 'Green materials'. Additionally, we highlight the significance of benchmarking and standardization in advancing sustainable practices within the semiconductor industries.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-18DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/adb437
Yafei Zhang, Bingyang Bo, Jinglei Qin, Bei Liu, Hong-Shang Peng
{"title":"Preparation of aggregation-free ZnPc-doped nanophotosensitizers for highly efficient photodynamic therapy.","authors":"Yafei Zhang, Bingyang Bo, Jinglei Qin, Bei Liu, Hong-Shang Peng","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb437","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb437","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc), a promising second-generation photosensitizer, suffers from decreased quantum yield of singlet oxygen due to poor water solubility and prone-to-aggregation nature in both physiological environment and solid matrix. To address this issue, in this work we reported a simple ligand-assisted reprecipitation method to prepare aggregation-free ZnPc-doped nanoparticles (NPs). Specifically, a short-chain ligand hexylamine was introduced to coordinate with ZnPc during reprecipitation, so that to alleviate ZnPc aggregation in the polymeric nanomatrix. As a consequence, the as-prepared ZnPc-loaded NPs with an optimal loading content of 4 wt.% acquired a high singlet oxygen quantum yield (Φ<sub>Δ</sub>) of 0.5, which was comparable to that of ZnPc monomer (Φ<sub>Δ</sub>= 0.55). Moreover, 10 wt.% ZnPc-loaded NPs could still retain a singlet oxygen quantum yield of 0.38. Taking advantage of the aggregation-free nano-photosensitizers (NPSs), efficient photodynamic therapy effect was achieved on HeLa cells upon 660 nm photo-irradiation with an ultra-low light dose (1.8 J cm<sup>-2</sup>). This study not only presented a high efficient ZnPc-based NPS, but also proposed a new strategy to reduce the aggregation of metal complex in solid matrix through ligand coordination.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143391424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-18DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/adb436
Anjali Chandel, Po-Wen Tang, Sheng Hsiung Chang
{"title":"Review on efficient P3CT and P3HT HTL based perovskite solar cells.","authors":"Anjali Chandel, Po-Wen Tang, Sheng Hsiung Chang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb436","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The excellent collection ability of the photo-generated holes from the poly-crystalline lead trihalide perovskite thin films to the poly[3-(4-carboxybutyl)thiophene-2,5,-diyl] (P3CT) or poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) polymer layer has been used to realize the highly efficient solar cells. The electronic and molecular structures of the p-type polymers play the decisive roles in the photovoltaic responses of the resultant perovskite solar cells. It is fundamental to understand the relation between the material properties and the photovoltaic performance in order to achieve the highest power conversion efficiency. We review the molecular packing, morphological, optical, excitonic, and surface properties of the P3CT and P3HT polymer layers in order to correctly understand the working mechanisms of the resultant solar cells, thereby predicting the required material properties of the used p-type polymers as the efficient hole transport layer.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143391434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent advances in localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensing technologies.","authors":"Xunjie Lin, Yunfei Luo, Dongxian Li, Yue Li, Tiancheng Gong, Chengwei Zhao, Ruiqi Duan, Weisheng Yue, Changtao Wang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb6a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/adb6a4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is an optical phenomenon associated with noble metal nanostructures. The resonances result in sharp spectral absorption peaks as well as enhanced local electromagnetic fields, which have been widely used in chemical and biological sensing. Over the past decade, as label-free analytical method, LSPR sensors have gained considerable interest and undergone rapid development. In addition to conventional refractive-index sensing through resonant wavelength shift, molecular sensing by colorimetry and imaging techniques have also been developed. Moreover, the LSPR sensors have been integrated with other techniques such as micro/nano fluidics and artificial intelligence to enhance their functionality and performances. In this work, we provide an overview of the recent advancement in LSPR sensors technology, including refractive-index, colorimetric, and imaging-based sensors., as well as the incorporation of new technologies like artificial intelligence.
.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143441316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/adafae
Furkan M Altincicek, Lucian Livadaru, Christopher C Leon, Taras Chutora, Max Yuan, Roshan Achal, Jeremiah Croshaw, Jason Pitters, Robert Wolkow
{"title":"Electronic structures of atomic silicon dimer wires as a function of length.","authors":"Furkan M Altincicek, Lucian Livadaru, Christopher C Leon, Taras Chutora, Max Yuan, Roshan Achal, Jeremiah Croshaw, Jason Pitters, Robert Wolkow","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adafae","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adafae","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bare silicon dimers on hydrogen-terminated Si(100) have two dangling bonds. These are atomically localized regions of high state density near to and within the bulk silicon band gap. We studied bare silicon dimers as monomeric units. Silicon dimer wires are much more stable than wires composed of individual dangling bonds. Dimer wires composed of 1-5 dimers were intentionally fabricated and characterized by STM techniques combined with density functional theory to provide detailed insights into geometric and electronic structure. Structural and dynamic qualities displayed by short wires were shown to be similar to the characteristics of a relatively long 37 dimer wire. Rather than adding two states into the band gap, experiment and theory reveal that each dimer adds one empty state into the gap and one filled state into the valence bands. Coupling among these states provides a conduction pathway with small bulk coupling.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/adb3ad
Dyhia Tamsaout, Edmond Cambril, Laurent Travers, Ali Madouri, Noëlle Gogneau, Maria Tchernycheva, Jean-Christophe Harmand, Ludovic Largeau
{"title":"Two-step growth procedure for homogeneous GaN NW arrays on graphene.","authors":"Dyhia Tamsaout, Edmond Cambril, Laurent Travers, Ali Madouri, Noëlle Gogneau, Maria Tchernycheva, Jean-Christophe Harmand, Ludovic Largeau","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb3ad","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb3ad","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Growth of GaN nanowires (NWs) on graphene substrates is carried out by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. We test a two-step growth procedure consisting of a first stage at relatively low temperature followed by a second stage at higher temperature. We investigate the impact of this process on the usually long incubation time which precedes the first GaN nucleation events on graphene. We also examine how the selectivity of growth between graphene and the surrounding SiO<sub>2</sub>surface is affected. After optimization of this procedure, it is applied to the growth of GaN NWs on a graphene layer patterned by electron beam lithography. A clear advantage of the two-step growth is observed in terms of reduction of the incubation time and improvement of height uniformity.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-temperature growth of wafer-scale amorphous boron nitride films with low-dielectric-constant and controllable thicknesses.","authors":"Hang Zheng, Zihao Wan, Wenna Tang, Xianlei Huang, Zhenjia Zhou, Weilin Liu, Chao Wang, Guowen Yuan, Libo Gao","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb293","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb293","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amorphous boron nitride (aBN) films, with extremely low relative dielectric constant (<i>κ</i>) and chemical inertness, are excellent insulation and packaging materials for electronic device interconnection. It is of great significance to prepare the low-<i>κ</i>aBN films with controllable thickness, but there are still some limitations to achieve the goal. In this study, we succeed in growing wafer-scale aBN films with specific thicknesses from 1.2 to 4.0 nm by varying the growth time and temperature. The thickness of the films increases linearly with growth time and the crystallinity of BN films is precisely controlled by the growth temperature. The preferred temperature for aBN films ranges from 200<b>°</b>C to 400<b>°</b>C. Raman spectroscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and transmission electron microscope all confirm the amorphous feature. These films are wafer-scale uniformity and have an ultra-flat surface, with excellent thermal stability and corrosion resistance. Particularly, the growth temperature affects the<i>κ</i>value and breakdown voltage of aBN films. The aBN films grown at 200<b>°</b>C have the lowest<i>κ</i>value of 1.66 at 100 kHz, along with the breakdown field strength of 5.5 MV cm<sup>-1</sup>. We believe that wafer-level aBN films with various thicknesses can bring new opportunities for the development and application of nanoscale electrical devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143255918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/adb1ed
Jiawei Si, Jin Yang, Zhaofeng Zhu, Zhukun Li, Haiyang Lai, Lei Han
{"title":"Self-powered wireless sensing technologies based on triboelectric nanogenerator.","authors":"Jiawei Si, Jin Yang, Zhaofeng Zhu, Zhukun Li, Haiyang Lai, Lei Han","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb1ed","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb1ed","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, sustainable energy supply and wireless transmission of distributed wireless sensor nodes have become a challenge. In recent years, self-powered wireless sensing technologies (SWSTs) combining triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) and wireless solutions have been proposed to address the issues of energy harvesting and wireless transmission. This review systematically summarizes the research advances in SWSTs based on TENG, and compares the advantages and disadvantages of different technologies. In addition, challenges and expectations for future TENG-based SWSTs are discussed as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/adb1ee
Yao He, Lijing Wang, Sheng Yang, Shaowei Zhang, Hongfang Du, Dandan Cui, Liangxu Lin
{"title":"Mitigating shuttle effect of the Li||S battery with Se-deficient commercial MoSe<sub>2</sub>flakes.","authors":"Yao He, Lijing Wang, Sheng Yang, Shaowei Zhang, Hongfang Du, Dandan Cui, Liangxu Lin","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb1ee","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/adb1ee","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs), the dissolution of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) triggers the shuttle effect to lose active materials irreversibly, leading to the fast deterioration of electrochemical performance. Rational designs on the separator membrane could mitigate the shuttle effect. However, the development of efficient separators economically remains a challenging task, aggressively limiting the commercial use of LSBs. This work reports the engineering of commercial molybdenum diselenides (MoSe<sub>2</sub>) flakes to mitigate the shuttle effect of LSBs, by forming rich Se vacancies via a potassium (K) intercalation and de-intercalation reaction. The Se vacancy in MoSe<i><sub>x</sub></i>flakes significantly enhances the adsorption capacity of LiPSs and accelerates the Li<sup>+</sup>diffusion kinetics, thereby alleviating the shuttle effect and enhancing the energy storage performance. This directly improves the energy storage performance of the LSBs by incorporating the MoSe<i><sub>x</sub></i>flakes into the separator membrane, giving a high capacity retention rate of 94.6% at 2 C after 500 cycles, with a reversible specific capacity as high as 452 mAh g<sup>-1</sup>. This work offers a new strategy for the design and synthesis of vacancy rich transition metal chalcogenides for high-performance LSBs and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NanotechnologyPub Date : 2025-02-12DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ada9f3
Cong Yan, Hongxia Liu, Hao Yu, Hangtian Yang
{"title":"Gate-tunable photodetectors based on MoTe<sub>2</sub>/MoS<sub>2</sub>heterostructures anti-ambipolar transistors.","authors":"Cong Yan, Hongxia Liu, Hao Yu, Hangtian Yang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6528/ada9f3","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6528/ada9f3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anti-ambipolar transistors (AATs) are considered as a breakthrough technology in the field of electronics and optoelectronics, which is not only widely used in diverse logic circuits, but also crucial for the realization of high-performance photodetectors. The anti-ambipolar characteristics arising from the gate-tunable energy band structure can produce high-performance photodetection at different gate voltages. As a result, this places higher demands on the parametric driving range (Δ<i>V</i><sub>g</sub>) and peak-to-valley ratio (PVR) of the AAT. Here, we demonstrate a high-performance photodetector with anti-ambipolar properties based on a van der Waals heterojunction of MoTe<sub>2</sub>/MoS<sub>2</sub>. Flexible modulation of carrier concentration and transport by gate voltage achieves a driving voltage range Δ<i>V</i><sub>g</sub>as high as 38.4 V and a PVR of 1.6 × 10<sup>2</sup>. Most importantly, MoTe<sub>2</sub>/MoS<sub>2</sub>exhibits a pronounced gate-tunable photoresponse, which is attributed to the modulation of photogenerated carrier transport by gate voltage. The MoTe<sub>2</sub>/MoS<sub>2</sub>heterojunction photodetector exhibits excellent performance, including an impressive responsivity of 17 A W<sup>-1</sup>, a high detectivity of 4.2 × 10<sup>11</sup>cm Hz<sup>1/2</sup>W<sup>-1</sup>, an elevated external quantum efficiency of 4 × 10<sup>3</sup>%, and a fast response time of 21 ms. Gate-tunable photodetectors based on MoTe<sub>2</sub>/MoS<sub>2</sub>heterostructures AAT have potential to realize optoelectronic devices with high performance, providing a novel strategy to achieve high-performance photodetection.</p>","PeriodicalId":19035,"journal":{"name":"Nanotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142984142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}