Special Edition on Semiconductor Materials and Optics
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2023) | Viewed by 3626
Special Issue Editors
Interests: semiconductor materials and optics; gigahertz, terahertz, and mid-infrared radiation (GIGA-TERA-MIR); (NIR-IR); quantum cascade lasers; dilute semiconductors; nitride, bismide and antimonide-based lasers; methods, materials, and devices for sensitive gas detection, water quality control, and metabolomics; GHz-THz frequency multiplication and controllable GHz-THz nonlinearities in semiconductor superlattices; THz metamaterials, nanoparticles for medical physics applications; sensors for CBRN detection and water quality monitoring
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Interests: theory and simulations in condensed matter physics; nonlinear dynamics; THz physics; mid-infrared radiation; high harmonic generation in condensed matter; semiconductor heterostructures; physical acoustics; acoustoelectronics; opto-electronic devices; sensors for CBRN detection and water quality monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in optics have had a large societal impact through new devices and applications, and have promoted a deeper understanding of the intrinsically quantum nature of matter and radiation, in the wake of highly controlled experiments.
The main focus of this Special Issue will thus cover semiconductor materials and optics. Both fundamental physics and applications will be covered. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Optoelectronic and kinetic properties of semiconductor materials;
- High harmonic generation in semiconductor crystals and artificial nanostructures;
- Negative differential conductivity (NDC) and electrical domain instabilities in GaAs, GaN and other semiconductor crystals;
- Bloch oscillations in superlattices, quantum cascade lasers, and other semiconductor crystals;
- Semiconductor quantum dots;
- MIR-THz OCLs and other semiconductor nanocrystals applied to explosives detection;
- Semiconductor-based gas sensors.
Prof. Dr. Mauro Fernandes Pereira
Dr. Apostolos Apostolakis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nonlinear optics
- metamaterials
- quantum cascade lasers
- quantum cascade detectors
- semiconductor superlattice multipliers
- semiconductor materials and optics
- sensitive gas detection
- high harmonic generation
- negative differential resistance
- water quality control
- metabolomics
- sensors for CBRN
- waveguides
- novel photonic functionalities
- optical computing
- laser materials
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