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An empire of many dimensions

Nature Materials volume 5, pages 775–776 (2006)Cite this article

New research results emerging from semiconductor physics and technology continue to surprise us. At a recent conference, it was nanoscale structures that captured particular attention.

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Figure 1: A three-dimensional representation of the current-induced light emission due to radiative electron–hole recombination in a semiconducting carbon nanotube.
Figure 2: The image shows part of a nanotree forest (made from InAs nanowires), with the trunks being interconnected by horizontal branches.

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