Silicon Photonics IV (eBook)

This fourth book in the series Silicon Photonics gathers together reviews of recent advances in the field of silicon photonics that go beyond already established and applied concepts in this technology. The field of research and development in silicon photonics has moved beyond improvements of integrated circuits fabricated with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology to applications in engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and medicine. The chapters provided in this book by experts in their fields thus cover not only new research into the highly desired goal of light production in Group IV materials, but also new measurement regimes and novel technologies, particularly in information processing and telecommunication. The book is suited for graduate students, established scientists, and research engineers who want to update their knowledge in these new topics.

David J. Lockwood obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Canterbury University (Cantuar), New Zealand in 1969, and he was awarded a D.Sc. in 1978 from Edinburgh University, U.K. and a D.Sc. from Canterbury University in 2000 for his work on the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of solids. He carried out post-doctoral work in physical chemistry at Waterloo University, Canada (1970-1971), and was a Research Fellow in Edinburgh University (1972-1978) before joining the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada in 1978 where he is presently a Researcher Emeritus. At NRC, Lockwood's research has centered on the optical properties of low dimensional materials and recently has focused on Group IV and III-V semiconductor quantum dots and transition-metal magnetic nanostructures. Lockwood has published more than 650 scientific articles in journals and books and has 6 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, and the Electrochemical Society and served on the editorial boards of 6 physics journals as well as being the founding editor of the Springer-Nature book series 'Nanostructure Science and Technology'. In 2005 he was awarded the Brockhouse Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists for outstanding achievement in condensed matter and materials physics and the Tory Medal of the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding research in any branch of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or an allied science. In 2008 he received the Exact and Natural Sciences Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, in 2010 the Centennial Outstanding Achievement Award of the Electrochemical Society, and in 2011 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference. In October 2012, a Symposium in his honour was held at the Electrochemical Society Fall Meeting in Honolulu. In 2013 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists for his distinguished and sustained contributions to the elucidation of the optical properties of solids, low-dimensional semiconductor systems, and in particular light-emission from silicon, as well as his contributions to the advancement of physics in Canada and worldwide. He is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology, which was established by the Electrochemical Society in 1971. The award recognizes his outstanding original contributions to the elucidation of the role of quantum-confinement effects in the optical and electrochemical properties of semiconductor nanostructures with applications in optoelectronics and photonics.