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 …

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 …

After dominating the electronics industry for decades, silicon is on the verge of becoming the
material of choice for the photonics industry: the traditional stronghold of III-V …

The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced
our ability to engineer the physical properties of semiconductors. Silicon, of all …

Silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) are attractive functional materials. They are compatible with
standard electronics and communications platforms and are biocompatible. Numerous …

Intrachip optical interconnects (OIs) have the potential to outperform electrical wires and to
ultimately solve the communication bottleneck in high-performance integrated circuits …

Persistent efforts have been made to achieve efficient light emission from silicon,,,,,, in the
hope of extending the reach of silicon technology into fully integrated optoelectronic circuits …

We report local-field-enhanced light emission from silicon nanocrystals close to a film of
nanoporous gold. We resolve photoluminescence as the gold− Si nanocrystal separation …

Silicon photonics is no longer an emerging field of research and technology but a present
reality with commercial products available on the market, where low‐dimensional silicon …

Recent advances in the production of Si nanostructures from electroless etching are
reviewed, including stain etching, metal-assisted etching and chemical vapour etching. A …