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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 872576, 21 pages doi:10.1155/2012/872576 Review Article Silicon Nanoscale Materials: From Theoretical Simulations to Photonic Applications Leonid Khriachtchev,1 Stefano Ossicini,2 Fabio Iacona,3 and Fabrice Gourbilleau4 1 Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014 Helsinki, Finland 2 Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola, 2 Pad. Morselli, ` 42122 Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy 3 MATIS IMM CNR, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy 4 CIMAP, CNRS/CEA/ENSICAEN/UCBN, 6 boulevard Marechal Juin, 14050 Caen Cedex 4, France ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Leonid Khriachtchev, leonid.khriachtchev@helsinki.fi Received 18 December 2011; Revised 13 March 2012; Accepted 13 March 2012 Academic Editor: David Lee Phillips Copyright © 2012 Leonid Khriachtchev et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The combination of photonics and silicon technology is a great challenge because of the potentiality of coupling electronics and optical functions on a single chip. Silicon nanocrystals are promising in various areas of photonics especially for light-emitting functionality and for photovoltaic cells. This review describes the recent achievements and remaining challenges of Si photonics with emphasis on the perspectives of Si nanoscale materials. Many of the results and properties