Advances in Light-Emitting Structures and Materials

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute your original research to the Special Issue “Advances in Light-Emitting Structures and Materials” of the journal Materials. The issue summarizes recent progress in experimental and theoretical research on emission of light, including device design and fabrication, material processing, as well as the physics, modeling, characterization, tuning, and optimization of the emission properties of relevant materials and structures.

 Topics include but are not limited to:

• Emission of light from inorganic and organic semiconductors, (nano-)structures and 2D materials;
• Photoluminescence, electroluminescence, and optical cooling;
• Plasmonics, gratings, photonic crystals and nanophotonics;
• Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, novel emitter devices and on-chip optical communication;
• Optical modeling techniques based on classical Maxwell’s equations or quantum optics;
• Study of emission enhancement and directionality;
• Electrical modeling, including drift–diffusion modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, and first-principle approaches;
• Emerging/novel simulation methods based, e.g., on machine learning.

Dr. Toufik Sadi
Dr. Nicklas Anttu
Guest Editors

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