Inter-american materials research in semiconductor nanowires

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In the past five or six years, the semiconductor research community has become increasingly interested in nanowires, hair-like structures with diameters on the order of nanometers and lengths of microns. Using the new National Ultrahigh Resolution Electron Microscopy Facility at McMaster University, we will measure the structural properties of semiconductor nanowires down to the atomic scale. Our Inter-American collaborators in Brazil and Argentina are leading experts in the optical and electrical characterization of nanostructures. Their work on the electrical and optical response of nanowires will complement McMaster's transmission electron microscopy analysis. This work will improve our understanding of the behaviour of nanowires so new applications in biomedical engineering, optoelectronics, and energy production can be realized.