Market assessment for plasmontronics technology

对提高电子设备的性能、功能和计算能力同时降低能耗的持续需求为消费电子和信息技术行业创造了新的市场机会。我们最近制定了一个新的平台技术的基础onelectrically-doped半导体纳米结构，表现出有限的光诱导集体共振振荡的自由电荷载流子，被称为局部表面等离子体共振（LSPR）。LSPR现象传统上与金属纳米颗粒有关，然而，控制半导体纳米晶体中电荷载流子类型和密度的可能性导致最近出现胶体等离子体半导体和金属氧化物纳米晶体。我们最近设计并制造了一类等离子体半导体纳米晶体和纳米线，它们在室温下和小至约200 nm的纳米晶体中显示出LSPR和激子之间的强大相互作用。5nm。这种相互作用本质上是固有的，并且通过LSPR和半导体电子带的非共振耦合来实现，导致带分裂和两个载流子通道的形成，这两个载流子通道可用于携带和存储信息（量子比特）。这项技术代表了一种全新的非易失性电子信息处理和存储方法，可能还有量子计算，与现有技术相比具有显着优势。

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.