Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and
communications while simultaneously resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth …

Silicon does not emit light efficiently, therefore the integration of other light‐emitting
materials is highly demanded for silicon photonic integrated circuits. A number of integration …

Reliable technologies for the monolithic integration of lasers onto silicon represent the holy
grail for chip-level optical interconnects. In this context, nanowires (NWs) fabricated using III …

Nanolasers hold promise for applications including integrated photonics, on-chip optical
interconnects and optical sensing. Key to the realization of current cavity designs is the use …

Semiconductor nanowire (NW) lasers provide significant potential to create a new
generation of lasers and on-chip coherent light sources by virtue of their ability to operate as …

The III–V semiconductor InGaAs is a key material for photonics because it provides optical
emission and absorption in the 1.55 μm telecommunication wavelength window. However …

Monolithically integrated III–V semiconductors on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform can
be used as a building block for energy-efficient on-chip optical links. Epitaxial growth of III–V …

Surface effects strongly dominate the intrinsic properties of semiconductor nanowires (NWs),
an observation that is commonly attributed to the presence of surface states and their …

Heterostructures (HSs) of two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
offer a plethora of opportunities in materials science, condensed-matter physics, and device …

Core–shell nanowires (NW) have become very prominent systems for band engineered NW
heterostructures that effectively suppress detrimental surface states and improve …