Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

Fluorescence bioimaging is a powerful, versatile, method for investigating, both in vivo and
in vitro, the complex structures and functions of living organisms in real time and space, also …

Novel physical phenomena can emerge in low-dimensional nanomaterials. Bulk MoS2, a
prototypical metal dichalcogenide, is an indirect bandgap semiconductor with negligible …

Nanomaterials that can circulate in the body hold great potential to diagnose and treat
disease,,,. For such applications, it is important that the nanomaterials be harmlessly …

High quality factor (Q-factor) and strong field localization in nanostructures is a newly
emerged direction in nanophotonics. The bound states in the continuum (BIC) have been …

Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) constitute a perfect material for ink-jet printable
large area displays, photovoltaics, light-emitting diode, bio-imaging luminescent markers …

The role of quantum confinement (QC) in Si and Ge nanostructures (NSs) including quantum
dots, quantum wires, and quantum wells is assessed under a wide variety of fabrication …

ZnS is among the superior photocatalysts for H2 evolution, whereas the wide bandgap
restricts its performance to only UV region. Herein, defect engineering and phase junction …

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 …

Crystalline silicon is the most important semiconductor material in the electronics industry.
However, silicon has poor optical properties because of its indirect bandgap, which prevents …