Frontiers of Nano-Optoelectronic Systems

by Pavesi, Lorenzo; Buzaneva, Eugenia V.

• ISBN13: 9780792367468
• ISBN10: 0792367464
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The book provides a snapshot of the state of the art and points out directions for future research in such different subjects as photonic band gap crystals, semiconductor quantum dot and wire lasers, silicon optoelectronics, carbon-based nanostructure physics, polymer based nano-composite and quantum wires, DNA nano-technology and silicon bio-compatibility, nano-scale optical characterisation, spray and cluster deposition, self assembly, imprint technology, quantum computing and quantum dot-based computation.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Photograph of Participants	x
Introduction	xi
Part I. Fundamentals of Nano-Scale Science for Photonics applications
Nanophotonics: nanoscale optical science and technology	1	(10)
Paras N. Prasad
Yuzhen Shen
Abani Biswas
Jeff Winiarz
Three-dimensional nanostructures with electron and photon confinement	11	(12)
Sergei V. Gaponenko
Dielectric-polymer nanocomposite and thin film photonic crystals: Towards three-dimensional photonic crystals with a bandgap in the visible spectrum	23	(18)
C. M. Sotomayor Torres
T. Maka
S. G. Romanov
Manfred Muller
Rodolf Zentel
Quantum wires and quantum dots for optoelectronics: recent advances with epitaxial growth on nonplanar substrates	41	(24)
Eli Kapon
Quantum dot lasers	65	(20)
H. Schweizer
J. Wang
U. Griesinger
M. Burkard
J. Porsche
M. Geiger
F. Scholz
T. Riedl
A. Hangleiter
Part II. Low dimensional silicon for photonics
Nanostructured silicon as an active optoelectronic material	85	(14)
Leigh T. Canham
Silicon light emitters: Preparation, properties, limitations and integration with microelectronic circuitry	99	(22)
P. M. Fauchet
S. Chan
H. A. Lopez
K. D. Hirchman
Visible light emission from a new material system: Si/SiO2 superlattices in optical microcavities	121	(16)
L. Pavesi
G. Pucker
Z. Gaburro
M. Cazzanelli
P. Bellutti
Silicon nanostructures in Si/SiO2 superlattices for light emission applications: possibilities and limits	137	(10)
A. G. Nassiopoulou
T. Ouisse
P. Photopoulos
First principles optical properties of low dimensional silicon structures	147	(14)
Stefano Ossicini
Elena Degoli
Silicon nanostructures and their interactions with erbium ions	161	(16)
F. Priolo
G. Franzo
F. Iacona
Part III. Biomolecular Technologies
Nicks, nodes, and new motifs for DNA nanotechnology	177	(22)
Nadrian C. Seeman
Chengde Mao
Furong Liu
Ruojie Sha
Xiaoping Yang
Lisa Wenzler
Xiaojun Li
Zhiyong Shen
Hao Yan
Phiset Sa-Ardyen
Xiaoping Zhang
Wanqiu Shen
Jeff Birac
Philip Lukeman
Yariv Pinto
Xiaojun Li
Jing Qi
Bing Liu
Hangxia Qiu
Shouming Du
Hui Wang
Weiqiong Sun
Yinli Wang
Tsu-Ju Fu
Yuwen Zhang
John E. Mueller
Junghuei Chen
Interaction of biomaterials with porous silicon	199	(10)
S. C. Bayliss
L. D. Buckberry
A. Mayne
Part IV. Molecular-Scale Engineering: polymers and carbon-based nanostructures
Polydiacetylene PTS: a molecular quantum wire with exceptional optical properties	209	(18)
Carlos G. Trevino-Palacios
George Stegeman
Mingguo Liu
Fumiyo Yoshino
Sergey Poliakov
Lars Friedrich
Steven R. Flom
J.R. Lindle
F.J. Bartoli
The electronic structure of carbon-based nanostructures: fullerenes, onions and tubes	227	(16)
J. Fink
M. Knupfer
T. Pichler
M. S. Golden
Carbon nanostructure: characterization by optics and resonance Raman scattering	243	(16)
H. Kuzmany
M. Hulman
W. Plank
Encapsulation of Transition Metals into Carbon Nanoclusters	259	(16)
Supapan Seraphin
Part V. New technologies for producing nano- systems
Development of coating technologies using nano particles	275	(16)
Yasuo Mihara
Surface atomic scale engineering by deposition of mass selected clusters: STM and helium scattering analysis	291	(12)
R. Schaub
H. Jodicke
W. Harbich
J. Buttet
R. Monot
Visible and infrared photoluminescence from deposited germanium-oxide clusters and from Ge nanocrystals	303	(16)
Atsushi Nakajima
Minoru Fujii
Shinji Hayashi
Koji Kaya
New directions in nanotechnology: Imprint techniques	319	(12)
H. -C. Scheer
H. Schulz
D. Lyebyedyev
Self-assembly of nanoblocks and molecules in optical thin-film nanostructures	331	(16)
N. I. Kovtyukhova
E. V. Buzaneva
A. D. Gorchinsky
P. J. Ollivier
B. R. Martin
C. C. Waraksa
T. E. Mallouk
Part VI. Nano- and Molecular-Scale Characterization
Soft X-ray spectroscopy as a probe of the electronic structure of nanostructured solids	347	(16)
Stefan Eisebitt
Wolfgang Eberhardt
Optical spectroscopy of carrier relaxation and transport in III/V semiconductor structures	363	(14)
Etienne Goovaerts
Chris van Hoof
Near-field scanning optical spectroscopy of quasi-one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures	377	(16)
Ch. Lienau
V. Emiliani
T. Guenther
F. Intonti
T. Elsaesser
R. Notzel
K. H. Ploog
Optical characteristics of nanostructured III-V compounds	393	(12)
I.M. Tiginyany
C. Schwab
A. Sarua
G. Irmer
J. Monecke
I. Kravetsky
J. Sigmund
N.L. Hartnagel
Scanning probe microscopy (STM, AFM) investigation of carbon nanotubes	405	(16)
L.P. Biro
Molecular spectroscopy of nanoparticles	421	(10)
V.Ye. Pogorelov
V.P. Bukalo
Yu. A. Astashkin
Part VII. Novel Circuit Architecture of Nano-Optoelectronic Systems
Exploring the ultimate limits of control: Quantum networks for non-classical information processing	431	(12)
G. Mahler
A. Otte
Chaos in quantum machines	443	(12)
Ilki Kim
Guenter Mahler
Problems and perspectives in quantum-dot based computation	455	(20)
M. Macucci
G. Iannaccone
S. Francaviglia
M. Governale
M. Ghirlanda
C. Ungarelli
List of Participants	467	(8)
Index	475