Advanced 2D Materials and Wide-Band-Gap Compound Semiconductors: Epitaxial Growth, Characterization and Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 1815
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epitaxial growth; 2D materials; III-nitride; MOCVD; materials analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce a Special Issue of Coatings, titled "Advanced 2D Materials and Wide Band Gap Compound Semiconductors: Epitaxial Growth, Characterization and Applications." This Special Issue will bring together innovative research and advancements in the realm of 2D materials and wide-band-gap semiconductors, which are crucial for the next generation of electronic, optoelectronic, and energy devices.
Compound semiconductors consisting of III-nitride elements and advanced 2D materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), graphene, and boron nitride (BN) have garnered significant attention due to their versatile applications in areas such as LEDs, solar cells, detectors, sensors, and energy harvesting. Historically, compound semiconductors have predominantly been used in optoelectronic devices. In recent years, van der Waals (vdW) epitaxy has emerged as a promising method for growing high-quality materials, including III-V semiconductors on 2D materials.
Van der Waals epitaxy (vdWE) has proven to be a useful approach for relaxing the requirements of lattice mismatch and thermal mismatch between nitride epilayers and substrates. By using vdWE, the stress in the epilayer can be sufficiently relaxed, allowing the epilayer to be easily exfoliated and transferred, which provides opportunities for novel device design and fabrication. Our goal is to broaden this research field to include various applications using emerging nanomaterials, meeting growing demand for advanced display and electronic devices.
We invite researchers, scientists, and engineers from academia, industry, and research institutions to submit their original research articles, reviews, and perspectives. This Special Issue will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure the publication of high-quality and impactful research.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New materials and characterization techniques;
- LEDs and laser diodes (LDs);
- Two-dimensional materials and Van der Waals heterostructures;
- Epitaxial growth;
- Power devices and their electrical and optical properties;
- Semiconductor device technology;
- Nanoscale characterization of nanomaterials;
- Emerging nanomaterials and nanostructures.
Dr. Wei-Chun Chen
Dr. Wei-Lin Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- epitaxy
- van der waals
- TMDs
- nitride
- CVD
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