Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and
communications while simultaneously resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth …

With a global market share of about 90%, crystalline silicon is by far the most important
photovoltaic technology today. This article reviews the dynamic field of crystalline silicon …

Today's dominant photovoltaic technologies rely on single-junction devices, which are
approaching their practical efficiency limit of 25–27%. Therefore, researchers are …

Reliable, efficient electrically pumped silicon-based lasers would enable full integration of
photonic and electronic circuits, but have previously only been realized by wafer bonding …

The goal of integrated quantum photonics is to combine components for the generation,
manipulation, and detection of nonclassical light in a phase-stable and efficient platform …

Serving as the electrical to optical converter, the on-chip silicon light source is an
indispensable component of silicon photonic technologies and has long been pursued …

With the advent of efficient high-bandgap metal-halide perovskite photovoltaics, an
opportunity exists to make perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. We fabricate a monolithic …

Combining silicon and other materials in tandem solar cells is one approach to enhancing
the overall power conversion efficiency of the cells. We argue that top cell partners for silicon …

Realizing efficient on-chip light sources has long been the “holy-grail” for Si-photonics
research. Several important breakthroughs were made in this field in the past few years. In …

Monolithic integration of III-V semiconductor devices on Silicon (Si) has long been of great
interest in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), as well as traditional integrated circuits (ICs) …