Abstract Germanium nanocrystals (Ge NCs) have recently attracted renewed scientific
interest as environmentally friendlier alternatives to classical II–VI and IV–VI QDs containing …

Group IV alloys have attracted interest in the drive to create Si compatible, direct band gap
materials for implementation in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and …

Low-cost, less-toxic, and abundantly-produced Ge1− xSnx alloys are an interesting class of
narrow energy-gap semiconductors that received noteworthy interest in optical technologies …

Highly oriented Ge0. 81Sn0. 19 nanowires have been synthesized by a low-temperature
chemical vapor deposition growth technique. The nanostructures form by a self-seeded …

The development of short-wave infrared (SWIR) photonics based on GeSn alloys is of high
technological interest for many application fields, such as the Internet of things or pollution …

In the past decades, group IV nanowires and nanoparticles have been the subject of
extensive research. Beside tremendous progress in morphological control and integration in …

Multimetallic clusters can be described as building blocks in intermetallics, compounds
prepared from all metals and/or semi-metals, and in Zintl phases, a subset of intermetallics …

Ge1–x Sn x nanorods (NRs) with a nominal Sn content of 28% have been prepared by a
modified microwave-based approach at very low temperature (140° C) with Sn as growth …

GeSn alloys have the potential of extending the Si photonics functionality in shortwave
infrared (SWIR) light emission and detection. Epitaxial GeSn layers were deposited on a …

Group IV alloy nanocrystals (NCs) are a class of direct energy gap semiconductors that
show high elemental abundance, low to nontoxicity, and composition-tunable absorption …