Dear colleagues,

Miniaturized photonic sensors and their related readout electronics are becoming a driving technology both for industry and for science. If we consider, as photonic sensors, all photon detectors in a very wide range of the photon energy spectrum (namely from infrared to X-rays) we have an enormous range of possible application of these sensor: from medicine to space physics, from cultural heritage preservation to fundamental interactions physics, from structural analysis to fiber optic communication and many others. Additionally we can consider sensor performing direct detection, where the conversion photon-to-electric signal happens in the sensor itself (e.g. solid state detectors converting  from infrared to x-rays photons) or indirect detection where the primary photon interacts with some  intermediate material producing secondary photon detected by the sensors.

Sensor material ranges from simple semiconductors like Silicon or Germanium, binary or ternary semiconductors like CdTe, SiC, CdZnTe, amorphous semiconductors like a-Si:H insulators like Diamonds etc.

Contributions from all these techniques and applications will be taken into consideration for the publication in the journal. We look forward for your contribution.

Section Editors

Prof. Mauro Menichelli

Alexandros Gazis

Nabeel Z. Al-Hazeem