Emerging Technologies in Nanodevices and Energy Generation Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 3238
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Van der Waals semiconductors; 2D materials; nanophotonics; nanoelectronics; nanobiosensors; nanothermoelectrics; nanomaterial synthesis and characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clean energy generation and efficient consumption are becoming significantly important for a sustainable future. Recent research on nanomaterials has enabled the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient nanodevices. Owning to their low dimensionality, extraordinary electrical, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties, nanodevices based on nanomaterials have shown their great potentials in various energy applications. Of particular interest, emerging low-dimensional materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides and MXenes, which can exhibit an atomically thin layer, have demonstrated desirable features such as superior electron mobility, exceptionally high current density, layer-dependent band gap energy, and strong excitonic transitions, enabling the path towards low energy consumption and sustainable energy generation and storage.
In this Special Issue, emerging nanodevices using novel nanomaterials and their corresponding energy applications are discussed. This includes novel transistor structures, photonic nanodevices, emerging and optimized solar cells, innovative sensors at the nanoscale, emerging nanomaterial synthesis techniques, nanomaterial characterizations, nanodevice simulations and optimizations, and integrated nanodevices and systems.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Moh R. Amer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nanoelectronics
- Nanophotonics
- Nanosensors
- Nanosolar cells
- Nanomaterial synthesis
- Nanomaterial characterization
- Nanodevice simulations
- Nanoenabled tools
- Nanothermal management
- Integrated nanodevices and systems
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