“…Quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) nanostructured materials including nanotubes, nanowires and nanorods have been successfully prepared and have received much attention, as they play a crucial role in future nanodevices with novel electrical, magnetic and optical properties. Semiconductor nanoribbons (NRs), a prominent type of one-dimensional nanostructures [1], are good candidates as building blocks for functional nanodevices such as waveguides [2,3], photoconductive optical switches [4,5], sensors [6], acoustic resonators [7] and field effect transistors (FETs) [8]. Cadmium sulfide (CdS) is one of the most important group II-VI semiconductors with a direct band gap of 2.42 eV at room temperature [9][10][11], having vital optoelectronic applications such as laser, light-emitting diodes and nanolasers [12].…”