Title
Nanostructured Silicon for Photonics
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-87849-488-0 |
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| Year: | 2006 |
| Title: | Nanostructured Silicon for Photonics |
| Subtitle: | - from Materials to Devices - |
| Authors/Editors: | Z. Gaburro, P. Bettotti, N. Daldosso, M. Ghulinyan, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Melchiorri, F. Riboli, M. Saiani, F. Sbrana and L. Pavesi |
| Published in: |
Materials Science Foundations (monograph series), Volumes 27 - 28
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| Category: | |
| Pages: | 260 |
| Edition: | softcover |
| Description: | The use of light to channel signals around electronic chips could solve several current problems in microelectronic evolution including: power dissipation, interconnect bottlenecks, input/output from/to optical communication channels, poor signal bandwidth, etc. It is unfortunate that silicon is not a good photonic material: it has a poor light-emission efficiency and exhibits a negligible electro-optical effect. Silicon photonics is a field having the objective of improving the physical properties of silicon; thus turning it into a photonic material and permitting the full convergence of electronics and photonics. Various research efforts, based upon the use of nano-sized silicon, are described in this book. The authors review the field and report the recent research results achieved in Trento. The work is divided into the chapters: 1. Introduction, 2. Silicon nanocrystal fundamentals, 3. Nanoprobe technique to characterize Silicon nanocrystals, 4. Silicon-based light-emitting diode, 5. Optical gain in silicon and the quest for a silicon laser, 6. Er coupled Si nanocrystal optical amplifiers, 7. Design of silicon-based optical components, 8. Si-based waveguides, 9. Silicon-based photonic crystals, 10. Silicon-based complex dielectric systems. This is, altogether, a unique summary of a pivotal issue in semiconductor research. |
| TOC: | Table of Contents |
| Prices: | USD: 144.00 / EUR: 113.00 |