Semiconductor materials play an important part in developing nanophotonic technologies. Semiconductors are used for generating controllable photons as well as for confining and exploiting them for ...

Optoelectronic properties in semiconductor materials constitute a critical research area that bridges fundamental solid‐state physics with practical device applications. The interaction between light ...

Physicists have found that large-amplitude acoustic waves, launched by ultrashort laser pulses, can dynamically manipulate the optical response of semiconductors. One of the main challenges in ...

A technical paper titled “Anomalous isotope effect on the optical bandgap in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor” was published by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

As the miniaturization of silicon-based semiconductor devices approaches fundamental physical limits, the electronics ...

The energy-levels of semiconductors can be rearranged by coupling between light particles (photons) and excited electrons so that a formerly dark material becomes optically active. In their ...

A research team, led by Professor Kyoung-Duck Park in the Department of Physics at UNIST has succeeded in investigating and controlling the physical properties of naturally-formed nanoscale wrinkles ...

Ultrafast light switches offer interesting prospects for optical data processing, the researchers explain. The team's goal was to find a material whose reflective properties could be manipulated, or ...

(Nanowerk News) An international research team led by scientists at the University of Oldenburg has succeeded in manipulating the energy-level structure in an ultra-thin sample in such a way that this ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team, led by Professor Kyoung-Duck Park in the Department of Physics at UNIST has succeeded in investigating and controlling the physical properties of naturally-formed ...

Whether or not a solid can emit light, for instance as a light-emitting diode (LED), depends on the energy levels of the electrons in its crystalline lattice. An international team of researchers led ...