Recent Advances and Applications in Diamond Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbon Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 27
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Interests: wide-bandgap semiconductors; diamond, perovskites; radiation detectors; front-end readout electronics; optical characterization; electronic charac-terization; femtosecond laser nanostructuring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to contribute to the forthcoming Special Issue, “Recent Advances and Applications in Diamond Materials”, to be published in Materials (MDPI).
Diamond has garnered increasing attention in the field of materials science due to its outstanding combination of physical and chemical properties, including exceptional mechanical hardness, high thermal conductivity, wide electronic bandgap, chemical inertness, and equivalence to biological tissues. Advances in synthesis techniques, particularly microwave-assisted chemical vapor deposition (MWCVD), have enabled the controlled fabrication of high-quality intrinsic and doped diamond films with different crystalline forms (from single crystals to nanodiamonds). Modern functionalization techniques, such as ultrafast laser-based processing, have also paved the way to defect-engineered diamonds with properties tailored to a specific application, hence expanding its technological relevance.
These developments have opened new opportunities in a wide range of applications, including high-power high-frequency electronics, quantum technologies (e.g., nitrogen-vacancy centers for sensing and information processing), photonics, radiation detectors, dosimeters for radiotherapy, and energy-related systems, such as high-temperature solar cells or photoelectrochemical converters.
Given the rapid pace of innovation, a dedicated forum is needed to gather and highlight recent breakthroughs and emerging trends in diamond research.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality contributions focusing on recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, and application of diamond materials, providing a comprehensive yet focused overview of current research directions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Growth techniques and synthesis of diamond films and nanostructures;
- Surface and bulk modification and functionalization;
- Mechanical, structural, chemical, thermal, electronic, optical, and photoelectronic properties;
- Defects, doping, and color centers for quantum applications;
- Diamond-based devices and systems, including modelling and simulation;
- Integration with other materials and heterostructures;
- Applications in sensing, medicine, electronics, photonics, and energy.
Dr. Marco Girolami
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diamond
- growth techniques
- synthesis techniques
- surface and bulk functionalization
- defect-engineering
- device modelling and simulation
- heterostructures
- physical properties
- chemical properties
- material characterization
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