Silicon, the material par excellence for electronics, is not used for light sources because of
the lack of efficient light emitters and lasers. In this review, I will discuss the physical reasons …

This book reviews up-to-date ideas of how the luminescence radiation in semiconductors
originates and how to analyze it experimentally. The book fills a gap between general …

Silicon the material per excellence for electronics is not used for sourcing light due to the
lack of efficient light emitters and lasers. In this review, after having introduced the basics on …

Integrated optics is at the heart of a wide range of systems from remote sensing and
communications to computing and quantum information processing. Demand for smaller …

Photonics is a key technology of this century. The combination of photonics and silicon
technology is of great importance because of the potentiality of coupling electronics and …

In the last decade, a strong effort has been devoted towards the achievement of efficient light
emission from silicon. Among the different approaches, rare-earth doping and quantum …

The authors have demonstrated an up to sevenfold enhancement of photoluminescence
from silicon-rich silicon nitride film due to a single photonic crystal cavity. The enhancement …

The complex dielectric functions of Si-nanocrystals (nc-Si) with different sizes embedded in
SiO 2 matrix synthesized by SiO x/SiO 2 superlattice approach is obtained by spectroscopic …

In this paper, we summarize the results of an extensive investigation on the properties of
MOS-type light emitting devices based on silicon nanostructures. The performances of …

Silica microspheres were deposited into two-dimensional periodic arrays and coated with a
thin layer of silicon nanocrystals. The luminescence from the silicon nanocrystals coupled …