Silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) hold great promise for many future technologies. Silicon is
already at the core of photovoltaics and microelectronics, and SiQDs are capable of efficient …

Silicon microphotonics, a technology which merges photonics and silicon microelectronic
components, is rapidly evolving. Many different fields of application are emerging …

Manipulating particle size is a powerful means of creating unprecedented optical properties
in metals and semiconductors. Here we report an insulator system composed of NaYbF4 …

Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and
where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter …

Modal gain coefficient is a key figure of merit for a laser material. Previously, net modal gain
coefficients larger than a few thousand cm–1 were achieved in II–VI and III–V semiconductor …

Light Emitting Silicon for Microphotonics offers fascinating insight the state-of-the-art in
silicon microphotonics and what we can expect in the near future. The book presents an …

Sources of coherent, monochromatic short-wavelength infrared (1-2 μm) light are essential
in telecommunications, biomedical diagnosis, and optical sensing. Today's semiconductor …

With their exceptional optoelectronic properties, CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) are
promising materials for light‐emitting devices. Elucidating their stimulated emission …

We discuss here some crucial issues related to the validity of the variable stripe length (VSL)
method to measure optical gain in semiconductor materials and we especially point out the …

Time-resolved luminescence measurements on silicon nanocrystal waveguides obtained by
thermal annealing of plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor-deposited thin layers of silicon-rich …