Silicon Nanophotonics Basic Principles, Present Status, and Perspectives, Second Edition

Silicon Nanocrystals Enabling Silicon Photonics. Silicon Nanostructures for Photonics and Photovoltaics: Ab initio Results. Modeling Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Silicon-Nanocrystal Structures. Band Structure of Silicon Nanocrystals. Engineering the Optical Response of Nanostructured Silicon. Room Temperature Light Emission from Silicon Nanowires Fabricated by a Metal-Assisted Wet Etching Process. All-Inorganic Colloidal Silicon Nanocrystals. Engineering Nonlinear Sources with Silicon-Compatible Optical Materials. Light Emission from Silicon-Based Materials: From Silicon Nanostructures to Rare Earth Ions. Silicon Nanocrystals in Silica: Optical Properties and Laser Annealing. Information Capacity of Silicon Nanophotonics. Silicon Nanocrystal Memories. Nanostructured Silicon Light Emitters. Silicon Nanostructures for Photovoltaics. Biological Applications of Silicon Nanostructures.

Biography

Leonid Khriachtchev graduated from the Leningrad State University, Russia, in 1981. He completed his PhD in quantum electronics in 1986 and became a senior scientist and group leader in 1988 in the Institute of Physics at the same university. At that time, his research dealt with resonant light pressure and optical pumping of the ground state of atoms in the gas phase. In 1994, he joined the University of Helsinki, Finland, and he is currently a senior scientist in the Department of Chemistry at this university. His scientific activities are focused on experimental spectroscopy of various molecular species and nanoscale materials. He has contributed to the construction of new chemical systems at low temperatures, including noble-gas compounds and high-energy conformers. Silicon-based photonics has been another important part of his research activity. He is the editor of Silicon Nanophotonics: Basic Principles, Present Status, and Perspectives (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2008) and Physics and Chemistry at Low Temperatures (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2011). He is also the author of over 240 refereed articles.

"Silicon Nanophotonics, edited by Leonid Khriachtchev, is a most useful and up-to-date collection of review articles covering the various aspects of silicon-based photonics, written by leading experts in the area. Both theoretical and experimental issues of silicon nanocrystals are considered, as well as device applications in both solid-state photonics and biology. This volume is an essential read for those working to make silicon shine as optoelectronics material."
—Prof. Risto M. Nieminen, Aalto University, Finland