Abstract
Group IV materials (C, Si, Ge) are between the most abundant and technologically important elements. The interest to study the group IV-based nanostructures is rapidly growing with motivation to use them for various application extending from electronics, photonics, photovoltaics, sensorics up to bio-medicine.
Most of such applications require creation of composite structures of group-IV nanostructures with dielectrics, polymers, plasmonic structures etc. This symposium covers many intensely studied forms of group-IV nanostructures, namely: Si and Ge nanocrystals and nanowires, silicon carbide and carbon dots and nanodiamonds.
Basic characteristics of these materials are already well known and some limitations become evident: For example relatively low absorption cross section, limited luminescence yield, problems with doping and energy transport, unstable surface termination and defects etc. One possible way to overcome limitations of group-IV nanomaterials is creation of nanocomposite structures with metals (Au, Ag, Pt nanocrystals and nanorods), organic materials (like conductive polymers, fluorescent dyes, ligands etc.).
The symposium will address the field of group-IV such composite structures from technological, theoretical and experimental point of view.