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 …

Wurtzite GaN materials underpin many aspects of optoelectronic applications due to the
special tetrahedral-coordinated structure. Compared with three dimensional (3D) GaN, low …

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 …

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 …

A variety of silicon-based nanostructures with dimensions in the 1–5 nm range now emit
tunable photoluminescence (PL) spanning the visible range. Achievement of high …

As one of the most important semiconductors, silicon has been used to fabricate electronic
devices, waveguides, detectors, solar cells, etc. However, the indirect bandgap and low …

To address the limitations in device speed and performance in silicon-based electronics,
there have been extensive studies on silicon optoelectronics with a view to achieving …

Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) with bright bandgap photoluminescence (PL) are of current
interest for a range of potential applications, from solar windows to biomedical contrast …

Silicon, a semiconductor underpinning the vast majority of microelectronics, is an indirect‐
gap material and consequently is an inefficient light emitter. This hampers the ongoing …

Driven by the emergence of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) of tunable
emission wavelengths, characteristic of exciton absorption peaks, outstanding photostability …