Fundamental Properties of Semiconductor Nanowires (PDF)

Naoki Fukata is Leader of the Nanostructured Semiconducting Materials Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. Holding a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tsukuba, he has served as an Associate Professor at Tohoku University and then as a Lecturer at the University of Tsukuba; he has been working at the NIMS since 2005. He has published 160 articles in internationally respected journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS NANO, Nano Energy, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review B, and contributed to two books. His research group focuses on the functionalization of semiconducting nanomaterials such as nanowires for applications in next-generation high-speed transistors and high-efficiency solar cells.

Riccardo Rurali received his Ph.D. from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2003. His research interests focuson the theoretical modeling of nanostructured semiconductors using various computational techniques, particularly with regard to their structural, electronic, and thermal properties. He is currently a tenured scientist at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), where he has also served as Deputy Director since 2015. He is the author of more than 100 articles published in internationally respected journals such as Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials and Physical Review Letters.