Semiconductor nanophotonics : / Prasanta Kumar Basu,Bratati Mukhopadhyay and Rikmantra Basu

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basu, Prasanta Kumar, author.

Mukhopadhyay, Bratati, author.

Basu, Rikmantra, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nanophotonics.

Semiconductor industry.

Physical Description:

592 pages: illustrations(colour)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022

Summary:

Nanometre sized structures made of semiconductors, insulators and metals and grown by modern growth technologies or by chemical synthesis exhibit novel electronic and optical phenomena due to confinement of electrons and photons. Strong interactions between electrons and photons in narrow regions lead to inhibited spontaneous emission, thresholdless laser operation, and Bose Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons in microcavities. Generation of sub-wavelength radiation by surface Plasmon-polaritons at metal-semiconductor interfaces, creation of photonic band gap in dielectrics, and realization of nanometer sized semiconductor or insulator structures with negative permittivity and permeability, known as metamaterials, are further examples in the area of nanophotonics. The studies help develop Spasers and plasmonic nanolasers of subwavelength dimensions, paving the way to use plasmonics in future data centres and high speed computers working at THz bandwidth with less than a few fJ/bit dissipation. The present book intends to serveas a textbook for graduate students and researchers intending to have introductory ideas of semiconductor nanophotonics. It gives an introduction to electron-photon interactions in quantum wells, wires and dots and then discusses the processes in microcavities, photonic band gaps and metamaterials and related applications. The phenomena and device applications under strong light-matter interactions are discussed by mostly using classical and semi-classical theories. Numerous examples and problems accompany each chapter.

Contents:

1 Introduction

2 Basic properties of semiconductors

3 Macroscopic theory of optical processes

4 Photons and electron-photon interactions

5 Electron-photon interactions in bulk semiconductors

6 Optical processes in quantum wells

7 Excitons in semiconductors

8 Nanowires

9 Nanoparticles

10 Optical microcavities

11 Cavity quantum electrodynamics

12 Bose-Einstein condensation

13 Surface plasmon

14 Spasers, and plasmonic nanolasers

15 Optical metamaterials

16 Nanolasers

ISBN:

0-19-108762-9

0-19-182710-X