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Optics and photonics

Optics and photonics

Exploring the hidden world behind electronic devices

09 Jun 2021 Tami Freeman

Already this year, Elham Fadaly has completed a PhD and won an award for her work on semiconductor crystal growth mechanisms, which helped to create a silicon-based light emitter. She talks to Tami Freeman about this award-winning research and her plans for the future

Elham Fadaly in the lab in a clean suit
Finding the ‘Holy Grail’ of optoelectronics Elham Fadaly was part of an international team that created a light-emitting silicon-based material with a direct band gap. (Courtesy: Sicco van Grieken, Surf)
You were runner-up for the Nanotechnology Young Researcher Award, which recognizes early career br

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