Market assessment for plasmontronics technology

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The continuing demand to increase the performance, functionality, and computational power of electronicdevices while decreasing the energy consumption has created new market opportunities in consumer electronicand information technology industries. We have recently formulated a new platform technology based onelectrically-doped semiconductor nanostructures that exhibit confined light-induced collective resonantoscillation of free charge carriers, known as localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The phenomenon ofLSPR has traditionally been associated with metal nanoparticles, however, the possibility to control chargecarrier type and density in semiconductor nanocrystals has lead to the recent emergence of colloidal plasmonicsemiconductor and metal oxide nanocrystals. We have recently designed and fabricated a class of plasmonicsemiconductor nanocrystals and nanowires that show a robust interaction between LSPR and exciton at roomtemperature and in nanocrystals as small as ca. 5 nm. This interaction is intrinsic in nature and is enabled bynon-resonant coupling of LSPR and the semiconductor electronic bands, leading to the band splitting and theformation of two carrier channels which can be used to carry and store information (qubits). This technologyrepresents a radically new approach to non-volatile electronic information processing and storage, and possiblyquantum computing, with significant advantages over the existing technologies.