Thin Films and Nanostructures Deposition Techniques
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 1441
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thin films; nanostructures; pulsed laser deposition; laser ablation of solids in liquids
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: thin films; nanostructures; pulsed laser deposition; laser ablation of solids in liquids
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on “Thin Films and Nanostructures Deposition Techniques”. Thin films and nanostructures have become the building blocks of technological devices, experiencing highly accelerated growth in recent decades. This has been enabled by the continuous development of new interesting material properties, especially in the form of thin films or nanostructures. Researchers and engineers in fields such as chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, or materials science are constantly trying to improve, find, or modify deposition techniques to design and develop technological devices meeting industrial demands.
This Special Issue is open to everyone working in research fields related to the synthesis and deposition of nanostructures and thin films. Surface modification techniques such as laser nanostructuring, ion implantation, surface oxidation/nitridation, etc., are also welcome.
This Special Issue will be focused on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Pulsed laser deposition (PLD);
- Laser ablation in liquids;
- Sol–Gel;
- Chemical bath deposition (CBD);
- Sputtering;
- Thermal evaporation;
- Closed-space vapour transport (CSVT);
- Chemical vapour deposition (CVD);
- Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE);
- Spray pyrolysis;
- Precipitation;
- Atomic layer deposition (ALD);
- Solvothermal synthesis.
Prof. Dr. José Guadalupe Quiñones-Galván
Dr. Laura Patricia Rivera Reséndiz
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- thin-film deposition
- nanostructure synthesis
- surface modification
- deposition techniques
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