A great drawback is the fact that silicon, the basic material for photonics which is the hot field of research and technology, is an indirect-gap semiconductor which emits light in the infrared and at very low efficiencies. 硅作为当前研究的热点领域,即光电集成的基本材料,一个主要的缺点就是它是间接带隙半导体,自身只能发射极微弱的红外光。