Thin Films, Nanostructures and Devices for Optoelectronics Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Optoelectronics is an emerging technology field that includes image pick-up devices, LEDs and elements, information displays, optical storage, remote sensing systems, and optical communication systems. Optoelectronics significantly contributes to the development of the information industry, and to the medical, communications, aerospace, and defense sectors.

Because the fundamental characteristics of optoelectronic devices depend on the active semiconductors, and optionally on dopants, substantial efforts are devoted to developing various semiconductors, dopants, and synthesis procedures to obtain the efficient emission or detection of photons.

For this purpose, understanding the physical mechanisms that determine the optoelectronic properties of high-performance materials is mandatory. If the photoinduced processes and electronic properties are important for optoelectronic applications that rely on charge carrier photogeneration, the capabilities of various experimental techniques used for materials characterization are important for the device’s performance.

This Special Issue is focused on all types of materials (inorganic, organic, hybrid, thin films, artificial structures, nanocomposites, nanostructures) and focuses on (but is not limited to) the following topics:

- Processing methods and technologies for thin films, nanostructures, and devices for optoelectronics;

- Structural and functional characterization studies;

- Theoretical models and simulations for material electronic structures, and for phenomena observed in materials and devices;

- Optoelectronic and photonic device applications.

This Special Issue will include both reviews and regular research papers that include theories and experiments on materials with optoelectronic properties, on materials processing and characterization, and on all types of interactions and phenomena that explain the optoelectronic and photonic properties of materials and devices.

Prof. Dr. Felicia Iacomi
Prof. Dr. Tetsuya Yamamoto
Prof. Dr. Hoda Hafez
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Swillam
Guest Editors

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