Optical Photodetectors on Silicon Chips
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 314
Editor
Interests: optoelectronic devices and components; integrated group-IV nanophotonics; optical photodetectors; sub-wavelength grating metamaterials, structures, and devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanophotonic technologies offer excellent opportunities to develop high-performance systems on semiconductor chips. In recent years, a wide variety of passive and active nanophotonic devices and components have been realized, and, among them, optical photodetectors stand out as they underlie many aspects of our daily lives. Moreover, optical photodetectors open routes towards a myriad of surging applications, as diverse as optical communications and interconnections or sensing and imaging, among others.
This Special Issue is focused on recent achievements in the field of optical photodetectors integrated on silicon chips, harnessing monolithic, hybrid, and heterogeneous integration approaches with spectral operation that may cover spectral intervals from mainstream near-infrared up to mid-infrared wavebands. This can include, but is not limited to, optical photodetectors based on conventional and well-established semiconductors such as III-V and group-IV materials as well as devices for light detection exploiting emerging materials and integration strategies such as two-dimensional materials and plasmonics, to name but a few. Accordingly, this Special Issue of Sensors will publish contributions of both regular research papers and extended review articles that demonstrate the most recent advances in the field of silicon-chip integrated optical photodetectors with their respective and potential application areas.
Dr. Daniel Benedikovic
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Integrated nanophotonics
- Photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
- Monolithic, hybrid, and heterogeneous integration
- Optical photodetectors
- III-V and group-IV semiconductors
- Two-dimensional materials
- Plasmonics
- Optical communications
- Sensors, imaging, and spectroscopy
- High-speed optical components
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