Quantum Dots for Photonic Applications
Accepting Submission: 1 December 2011Submission Deadline: 31 January 2012
Publication Date: May 2012
Quantum dots are semiconductor nanoparticles with unique optical and electronic properties thanks to their small size. They are promising materials with enormous potential in efficient photonic devices and biophotonic applications. The Optical Society's journals, Optical Materials Express and Optics Express, will publish linked Feature Issues covering different aspects of semiconductor nanostructure research, focusing on advances in quantum dot research for photonic and biophotonic applications. We are seeking original contributions on topics including, but not limited to:
- Synthesis, growth, characterization, and physics of semiconducting nanocrystals and quantum dots
- Photodetection
- Solar cells
- Display applications (OLEDs and others)
- Lasers
- Bioimaging
- Quantum dot-based biophotonics
The joint Feature Issue with a combined table of contents will be published in May of 2012. Authors may choose to submit to either Optical Materials Express (OMEx) or Optics Express (OpEx), but generally, we encourage submitting materials-oriented papers to OMEx, while all other topics would be better suited for OpEx. Papers will be subject to the normal peer-review process and, if accepted, will be published in their respective journal.
OMEx features rapid, open-access publication of content related to the syntheses, physics, processing and characterization of materials for applications in optics and photonics. OpEx is the original all-electronic, open-access optics journal, reporting new developments of interest to the optics and photonics community in all fields of optical science and technology.
Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to OMEx/OpEx and must be uploaded through OSA's electronic-submission system, (http://www.opticsinfobase.org/omex/ for OMEx or http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/ for OpEx). Publication charges are waived for Optical Materials Express articles submitted in 2011, including articles submitted to this feature issue. Discounted fees for OMEx take effect in 2012.
| Feature Issue Editors, Optical Materials Express | |
|---|---|
|
Kwang-Sup Lee Department of Advanced Materials Hannam University, Korea |
Paras N. Prasad Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA |
| Feature Issue Editors, Optics Express | |
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Guillaume Huyet Tyndal Institute National University of Ireland, Ireland |
Chee Hing Tan Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering University of Sheffield, UK |
