Special Edition on Semiconductor Materials and Optics

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:

1. Optoelectronic and kinetic properties of semiconductor materials;
2. High harmonic generation in semiconductor crystals and artificial nanostructures;
3. Negative differential conductivity (NDC) and electrical domain instabilities in GaAs, GaN and other semiconductor crystals;
4. Bloch oscillations in superlattices, quantum cascade lasers, and other semiconductor crystals;
5. Semiconductor quantum dots;
6. MIR-THz OCLs and other semiconductor nanocrystals applied to explosives detection;
7. Semiconductor-based gas sensors.

Prof. Dr. Mauro Fernandes Pereira
Dr. Apostolos Apostolakis
Guest Editors

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