Low-Dimensional Materials for Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Fundamentals and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 329
Special Issue Editor
Interests: low dimensional materials’ electrical, optoelectronic, and magnetic properties; strong spin-orbit coupling systems; and light-sensitive 2D materials/biomaterials hybrid structures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Materials is dedicated to low-dimensional materials for optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Low-dimensional science offers tremendous opportunities compared to bulk materials. An interdisciplinary community of chemists, physicists, and materials scientists focusing on atomically thin-layer materials, confined structures in zero, one, or two dimensions, and interfaces has made significant efforts and demonstrated that novel optoelectronic and photovoltaic processes can be developed and applied to specific applications. Indeed, there have been important advances in the photo- and micro-electronic industries due to materials that occur naturally, are synthetically designed, and are artificially engineered at low dimensions.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of original research articles and reviews on fundamental and applied research focused on low-dimensional materials for optoelectronics and photovoltaics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Semiconductor and heterostructure optoelectronics and photovoltaics;
- Mesoscopic phenomena in nanostructures;
- Plasmonic and phononic systems;
- Energy conversion and energy-harvesting processes;
- Nonlinear optoelectronic processes;
- Optoelectronics of 2D materials and their heterostructures;
- Carrier dynamics in organic materials and interfaces;
- Ultra-fast optical phenomena at low dimensions;
- Optoelectronics of nanowires and quantum dots;
- Flexible optoelectronics and photovoltaics.
Research contributions and review articles highlighting recent progress in these fields are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Eginligil
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar cells
- 2D materials
- heterostructures and interfaces
- quantum dots
- organic materials
- phototransistors
- photodetectors
- flexible electronics
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