Exploring hybrid nanowire transistors; A route to discoveries and new technological opportunities

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My previous NSERC Discovery Grant yielded exceptional progress in: (a) Making so-called semiconductor nanowire (NW) heterostructures (NWHs), with lengths/widths ~1/10th and ~1/1,000th of the thickness of a human hair (i.e., where the NW material changes along its length to another semiconductor, or where it is clad in a shell of another semiconductor). Such NWHs enable unprecedented control over where electrons reside; (b) Realising NWs from semiconductors which also showed magnetic properties, well above room temperature - an important precursor for so-called spintronics, where both electron charge and spin are used for information processing (IP); and (c) A first demonstration of a hybrid device mating a high temperature superconductor (HTSC) to a thin film semiconductor, showing, for the first time at elevated temperature, how so-called Cooper pairs could be efficiently injected into a thin film semiconductor, with promise for a future quantum computer.