-Study of Nanowire growth mechanisms: VLS & Si-assisted. -One-dimensional SiC nanostructures: Synthesis and its Properties. -Self-organized Nanowire Formation of Si-based Materials. -Optical anisotropy of semiconductor nanowires. -FDTD spectroscopic study of metallic nanostructures: on the pertinent employment of tabulated permittivities. -Electromagnetic nanowire resonances for field-enhanced spectroscopy. -Designing the Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor through Contact Barrier Engineering. -Low dimensional nano-materials for spintronics . -One dimensional phase-change nanomaterials for information storage application. -Ordering of self-assembled quantum wires on InP (001) surfaces. -Schottky barrier formation at a carbon nanotube-metal junction. -X-ray excited optical luminescence characterization of nanowires: sites, surfaces, and symmetries. -Single and multi wall carbon nanotubes: Differences and analogies in their electronic properties. -Controlled formation of nanowire array.

One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, including nanowires, nanotubes and quantum wires, have been regarded as the most promising building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices. This book presents exciting, state-of-the-art developments in synthesis and properties of 1D nanostructures with many kinds of morphologies and compositions as well as their considerable impact on spintronics, information storage, and the design of field-effect transistors.