Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) have drawn huge interest in recent years and have been
extensively used in a range of fields including the most important one—optical …

High-speed optical interconnects of data centers and high performance computers (HPC)
have become the rapid development direction in the field of optical communication owing to …

Solar blind photodetectors with a cutoff wavelength within the 200–280 nm region is
attracting much attention due to their potential civilian and military applications. The …

Single-photon detectors with picosecond timing resolution have advanced rapidly in the past
decade. This has spurred progress in time-correlated single-photon counting applications …

Macroscopic quantum phenomena, such as observed in superfluids and superconductors,
have led to promising technological advancements and some of the most important tests of …

The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

Integrated silicon nanophotonics has rapidly established itself as intriguing research field,
whose outlets impact numerous facets of daily life. Indeed, nanophotonics has propelled …

Sensitive photodetectors that operate at a wavelength of 2 μm are required for applications
in sensing and imaging but state-of-the-art devices are severely limited by high dark current …

Over the last two decades, low-dimensional nanomaterials such as zero-dimensional (0D),
one-dimensional (1D), and two-dimensional (2D) have been used as functional materials in …

Enhancing photon detection efficiency and time resolution in photodetectors in the entire
visible range is critical to improve the image quality of time-of-flight (TOF)-based imaging …