Advances in Semiconductor Nanostructures for Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 3033
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics refer to nanometer feature size structures commensurate with the wavelength of light or electrons and offer unique advantages when they are being used to manage light and electrons movement and localisation. The materials that are used to realise such structures tend to be metals and dielectrics (including semiconductors and insulators). Some of the interesting topics in these fields include:
Structures to control guiding, confinement and dispersion of light, including photonic-integrated circuits on silicon, and those involving compound semiconductor active structures integrated on to such a platform for active photonics.
Photonic cavities in which high Q are achieved enable new properties of light–mater interactions to be studied and harnessed. Nanostructures in which guided light modes interact nonlinearly can enable novel photonic structures to be built, including those being studied for the manipulation of quantum information.
Standing wave and open nanostructured cavities, when combined with plasmonics, present a fascinating medium for broadband surface-enhanced Raman structures, as well as for near-field spectroscopy and microscopies.
Electronic nanostructures include 2D materials, nanowires, quantum-confined heterostructures and reveal fascinating properties from traditional quantum transport to correlated effects, including spintronics, and Majorana Fermions.
The design of nanostructures for quantum information is a burgeoning field that looks to control over electrons degrees of freedom by local and global interactions.
In many of the cases of both photonic and electronic artificial nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces and their control play an important role in determining behaviour.
You are all invited to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue, in the form of research papers, communications, or reviews.
Prof. Dr. Harry E. Ruda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spintronic
- surface plasmon
- photonic nanowires
- photonic cavities
- quantum confined nanostructures
- majorana Fermions
- transport in semiconductor nanowires
- 2D materials
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