Optoelectronics

Dear Colleagues,

Empowered by novel device concepts and nanostructured material systems, optoelectronics has enabled groundbreaking innovations in diverse fields such as ICTs, automotive, energy production, and biomedical research. This Special Issue is intended to highlight recent advances in semiconductor optoelectronic devices, with attention to both theory and applications. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

- Physics of optoelectronic devices: electronic structure, carrier transport, light–matter interaction, absorption, and gain properties;

- High-speed dynamics in light emitters and modulators;

- Nonlinear optics: frequency-mixing processes, Pockels, Kerr, and acousto-optic effects;

- Noise in optoelectronic devices;

- Quantum kinetic models of nanostructures: nonequilibrium Green’s functions and density matrix;

- Multiphysics semiclassical models of optoelectronic devices coupling drift–diffusion, optical and thermal solver;

- Visible and UV light emitters;

- Superlattice infrared photodetectors;

- Quantum cascade lasers;

- Solar cells: intermediate band, hot carrier effects, nanotextures, novel materials;

- Novel devices: wavelength-tunable VCSELs, photonic crystal lasers.

Dr. Alberto Tibaldi
Prof. Dr. Francesco Bertazzi
Guest Editors

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