Surface Modification and Characterization of Transparent and Conductive Thin Films
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 270
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thin films; PLD; XRD; SEM; EBSD; combinatorial structures; transport properties
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Dear Colleagues,
In all technologies based on thin film and interacting with visible light, transparent conductors are essential materials to bring electrical contact to the device while allowing light to pass. Such transparent electrodes are used in energy technologies, either for renewable energies (photovoltaic cells), or for energy sobriety (LEDs, etc.). For example, in the fields of transparent conductor oxides (TCO), the current market, with a volume of around 150 M€, is dominated by a single TCO, indium tin oxide (ITO), which is easy to integrate into a wide range of devices and which shows the best electrical properties and optics among the technologically mature TCOs.
More generally, TC thin films can be developed playing on the control of the strains, of the surface or interface. Today, the large number of thin film deposition techniques allows the development of a wide range of new materials in the field of transparent conductors
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit manuscripts on the subject "surface modification and characterization of transparent and conductive thin films" for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, as well as comprehensive reviews are welcome. Please feel free to contact me as the guest editor in case of further questions.
Dr. Adrian David
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thin films
- transparent conductors
- surface characterization
- transport properties
