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 …

Triplet excitons are pervasive in both organic and inorganic semiconductors but generally
remain confined to the material in which they originate. We demonstrated by transient …

The overlap of the principal luminescence band of the erbium ion with the low-loss optical
transmission window of silica optical fibres, along with the drive for integration of photonics …

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 …

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 …

Currently, electrical interconnections based on metal lines represent the most important
limitation on the performances of silicon-based microelectronic devices. The parasitic …

Si quantum dots (QDs) as small as∼ 2 nm in diameter have been synthesized by a variety of
techniques. Because of quantum confinement and the elimination of bulk or surface defects …

Silicon nanocrystals (Si-nc) is an enabling material for silicon photonics, which is no longer
an emerging field of research but an available technology with the first commercial products …

This study reports the estimation of the inverted Er fraction in a system of Er doped silicon
oxide sensitized by Si nanoclusters, made by magnetron sputtering. Electroluminescence …