Functional nanowires and nanotubes : symposium held November 28-December 2 2011, Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Part I. Optical Properties: 1. Composition and size effects on the optical properties of isolated silicon-germanium nanowires Houssem Kallel, Abdallah Chehaidar, Arnaud Arbouet, Thierry Baron, Alexis Potie, Bassem Salem and Vincent Paillard 2. Photomodulated Rayleigh scattering from single semiconductor nanowires Mohammad Montazeri, Aaron Wade, Melodie Fickenscher, Howard E. Jackson, Leigh M. Smith, Jan M. Yarrison-Rice, Qiang Gao, H. Hoe Tan and Chennupati Jagadish 3. Photoconductivity of ZnO nanowires decorated with CdSe quantum dots Dongchao Hou, Apurba Dev, Kristian Frank, Andreas Rosenauer and Tobias Voss 4. Vector magneto-optical generalized ellipsometry on passivated permalloy slanted columnar thin films Daniel Schmidt, Chad Briley, Eva Schubert and Mathias Schubert 5. Photoluminescence and Raman scattering studies of GaN nanowires obtained by top-down and bottom-up approaches Toma Stoica, Anna Haab, David Griesche, Martin Mikulics, Friederich Limbach, Timo Schumann, Tobias Gotschke, Eli Sutter, Raffaella Calarco, Hilde Hardtdegen and Detlev Grutzmacher Part II. Electrical Transport and Energy Harvesting Devices: 6. Individualization and electrical characterization of SiGe nanowires M. Monasterio, A. Rodriguez, T. Rodriguez and C. Ballesteros 7. Carrier transport in GaAs nanowires using surface acoustic waves A. Hernandez-Minguez, M. Moller, C. Pfuller, S. Breuer, O. Brandt, M. M. de Lima, A. Garcia-Cristobal, A. Cantarero, L. Geelhaar, H. Riechert and P. V. Santos 8. Synthesis of Si nanowires by electroless etching technique and their integration into I-III-VI2 thin films for solar cells H. Karaagac, M. Parlak and M. Saif Islam 9. SiGe nanowires grown by LPCVD using Ga-Au catalysts M. Monasterio, A. Rodriguez, T. Rodriguez and C. Ballesteros 10. Thermoelectric properties of silicon nanowire array and spin-on glass composites fabricated with CMOS-compatible techniques Benjamin M. Curtin and John E. Bowers 11. Thermoelectric properties of p and n-type nanocrystalline silicon nanowires with high doping levels F. Suriano, M. Ferri, S. Solmi, L. Belsito, A. Roncaglia, E. Romano, D. Narducci and G. Cerofolini 12. Fabrication of SrTiO3 nanofibers for hydrogen production Lea Macaraig, Surawut Chuangchote and Takashi Sagawa Part III. Growth of Nanowires and Novel Structures: 13. Kinetics and statistics of vapor-liquid-solid growth of III-V nanowires Jean-Christophe Harmand, Frank Glas, Gilles Patriarche, Fauzia Jabeen and Mohamed Reda Ramdani 14. Pathway of porous silicon formation inside Si nanowires throughout metal assisted etching Alexander A. Tonkikh, Nadine Geyer, Bodo Fuhrmann, Hartmut S. Leipner and Peter Werner 15. A systematic study of metal-assisted chemical etching parameters for well-ordered silicon nanowire array fabrication Arif S. Alagoz and Tansel Karabacak 16. Characterization of magnetic transformation at Curie temperature in finemet-type microwires by DSC Sergey Kaloshkin, Margarita Churyukanova and Victor Tcherdyntsev 17. Template assisted fabrication and magnetic properties of cobalt ferrite nanostructures Jian H. Zhang, Liyin Chen and Xylona L. Williams 18. Synthesis and morphology control of carbon nanotube/polyaniline composite for chemical sensing Mengning Ding and Alexander Star 19. Diffusion instability and tapering of nickel silicide intrusions in silicon nanowires Alex Katsman, Michael Beregovsky and Yuval E. Yaish 20. Preparation of Al2O3 and AlN nanotubes by atomic layer deposition Cagla Ozgit, Fatma Kayaci, Inci Donmez, Engin Cagatay, Tamer Uyar and Necmi Biyikli 21. Silicon nanowires obtained by low temperature plasma-based chemical vapor deposition R. A. Puglisi, G. Mannino, S. Scalese, A. La Magna and V. Privitera.