“…Besides, the high-cost of Si wafers restricts its cost-competitiveness, engendering a need for an alternative type of thinner Si wafers with reduced costs and performance improvements. Because of this, novel Si nanostructures have been fabricated and demonstrated over the years, including silicon nanotubes [ 4 ], silicon nanowires [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 ], silicon nanocones [ 6 , 7 ], silicon nanorods [ 8 ], silicon nanoholes [ 9 , 10 ], silicon nanocrystals [ 5 , 11 ] and silicon nanopillars [ 12 , 13 ].…”