Thin Films for Electronic Devices

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few decades, the rapid development of advanced materials and devices for electronics has led mainstream research. Thin films for novel devices continue to be an innovative area in physics, materials science, chemistry, and electronics engineering. This Special Issue of Coatings on “Thin Films for Electronic Devices” encompasses all aspects of advanced thin films for state-of-the-art optoelectonic, photonic, energy, electronic, and neuromorphic devices in the field of their properties, fabrication, characterization, and applications. The aim of this Special Issue is to present the latest experimental and theoretical developments of thin films for diverse electronic devices, through a combination of original research papers and review articles from leading groups around the world.

In particular, the topic of interest includes but is not limited to:

• Prospect of future thin films from the perspective of electronic devices;
• Fundamental studies and modeling of thin films for electronic devices;
• Novel thin films for newly developed devices in a wide range of optoelectronics, photonics, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, sensing, and neuromorphics;
• Fabrication technologies for novel devices;
• Characterization/properties/surface/interface/defect/boundary/reliability.

Prof. Dr. Nam-Hoon Kim
Prof. Dr. Liang He
Guest Editors

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