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Despite great efforts to develop silicon-based optoelectronic devices, efficient photon emission from silicon still remains an elusive goal. Nanocavities could offer a path towards efficient silicon light emitters through strong optical confinement.

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Figure 2: Simplified electronic band structure and optical transitions of semiconductors.

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  1. Japan and at the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Masayuki Fujita is at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka 560-8531, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan,

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Fujita, M. Nanocavity brightens silicon. Nature Photon 7, 264–265 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.65

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