Dear Colleagues,

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have received increasing attention in recent years as promising nano building blocks for future highly compact optoelectronic/photonic integrated circuits due to their superior optical and electrical properties arising from their unique, one-dimensional material geometry. Nanowires represent an ideal platform for investigating the rich physics of low dimensional systems, in particular the optoelectronic processes. The light matter interaction at a sub-wavelength scale leads to many intriguing characteristics and properties of light absorption, generation, propagation, and detection, as well as closely related carrier generation, transport, and collection in nanowires, in both single and ensemble (array) forms. To date, almost every type of optoelectronic device has been demonstrated in nanowires, such as light-emitting diodes, lasers, photodetectors, solar cells, and sensors. Some basic NW emitter-waveguide-detector integrated circuits have also been realized.

However, to achieve industry-viable, nanowire-based optoelectronic devices and integrated systems requires the development of advanced simulations, material synthesis, device fabrication, and characterization technologies far more challenging than conventional approaches used for their planar counterparts. Despite enormous progress in the past few decades, there is still a great need for new research and development in the field to realize the full potential of NWs for future optoelectronic applications.

In this Special Issue, we cordially invite submission of manuscripts on Nanowire-based Optoelectronics. Topics may include (but are not limited to) NW material and device theory, modeling, and simulation; NW material synthesis and characterization; and NW device fabrication, characterization, and integration. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Lan Fu
Guest Editor

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• nanowire
• semiconductor
• optoelectronics
• lasers
• LEDs
• photodetectors
• solar cells
• sensors