Preface

Chapter 8 **Opportunities of Scanning Probe Microscopy for Electrical,**

Caner Değer, Vahap Eldem and İzzet Paruğ Duru

Chapter 11 **A Comparative Study of Nanowire Arrays for Maximum Power**

Chapter 10 **Recent Trends in Plasmonic Nanowire Solar Cells 209**

Pavel Geydt, Mikhail S. Dunaevskiy and Erkki Lähderanta

**Nanowires 155**

**VI** Contents

A. Obayya

**Transmission 233**

Chapter 9 **Diluted Magnetic DNA Nanowires 189**

**Mechanical and Electromechanical Research of Semiconductor**

Mohamed Hussein, Mohamed Farhat Othman Hameed and Salah S.

Hasan Aykut Şatana, Barışcan Karaosmanoğlu and Özgür Ergül

This book describes understanding about the nanowires, their fabrication, characterization, and applications in the recent technology. The book is organized into eleven chapters in to‐ tal, which include fabrication of various metallic and oxide nanowires using different chemi‐ cal and electrochemical techniques and their physical characterizations. Some very important applications of the nanowires such as for dye-sensitized and plasmonic nanowire solar cells, field-effect transistors, DNA, power transmission, and photovoltaic applications are discussed and presented in this book. The writing of each chapter is generally clear and precise, and numerous illustrations provide an easier understanding of the phenomena de‐ scribed in the book. This book addresses not only researchers in specialized field but also PhD students, postdoctorate fellows, and experienced technical professionals.

All the contributors of the book are active researchers in their fields, and therefore, this book provides up-to-date information about the nanowires and their applications. The content of the book provides the fundamental preparation needed for further study of advanced topics in nanowires. At the end of each chapter, proper references have been included that can lead the readers to the best sources in the literature and help them to go into more details about the nanowires.

I am grateful to all the authors who are experts in their fields for helping me complete this project and also to the entire InTech's publishing team for making this project possible. I am very thankful to the Publishing Process Manager Ms. Mirena Calmic for her cooperative atti‐ tude during the entire reviewing and publishing processes. I hope that this book will pro‐ vide an opportunity to the readers to strengthen their knowledge and research capabilities in the field of materials science and nanotechnology with their specializations in one-dimen‐ sional nanostructures.

> **Maaz Khan** Physics Division, PINSTECH, Islambad, Pakistan
