Advanced Materials and Devices for Silicon Photonics
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 May 2025 | Viewed by 62
Special Issue Editors
Interests: integrated photonics; silicon and silicon nitride photonics; low-loss waveguides; microresonators
Interests: low-loss planar lightwave technology; nonlinear integrated photonic devices; micro-/nano-fabrication
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Photonics, entitled “Advanced Materials and Devices for Silicon Photonics”.
Over the last two decades, silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology and has become the leading platform of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and different photonic components due to its compatibility with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication and ability to integrate with other material platforms such as silicon nitride, III–V materials (InP, GaAs, etc.), and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) materials. With its unique optical and material properties, including low optical loss, high refractive index, infrared wavelength transparency, high thermal conductivity and stability, and nonlinear optical properties, silicon photonics has enabled a wide range of applications in telecommunications and data centers, sensing, bio-photonics, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), optical computing, and quantum photonics.
This Special Issue aims to publish selected contributions on advances in silicon photonics-related materials and devices. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Integrated silicon and silicon nitride photonics.
- Light sources, including quantum dot lasers and heterogeneous integrated III-V lasers, etc.
- Silicon modulators and switches.
- Detectors, including Ge-on-Si and III–V hybrid detectors, etc.
- III–V material integration with silicon photonics.
- Silicon photonics metamaterials.
- Silicon photonics MEMS.
- Silicon bio-photonics.
Dr. Jiawei Wang
Dr. Qiancheng Zhao
Dr. Meiting Song
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrated silicon and silicon nitride photonics
- light sources, including quantum dot lasers and heterogeneous integrated III-V lasers, etc.
- silicon modulators and switches
- detectors, including Ge-on-Si and III–V hybrid detectors, etc.
- III–V material integration with silicon photonics
- silicon photonics metamaterials
- silicon photonics MEMS
- silicon bio-photonics
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