Carbon or Graphene Based Thin Films: Preparation, Properties, and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Carbon- and graphene-based materials have shown great usefulness because they can be chemically combined with other materials to obtain new interesting materials with new chemical and physical properties. As a result, they exhibit excellent characteristics, such as good electrical conductivity, high electrical charge density, high thermal conductivity, control of energy gap, interesting optical properties, and many others.

Studies of these materials allow their application in many fields for the production of materials based on thin-film carbon structures of a wide range of applications.

Especially in recent years, the thin film technology of structures based on carbon materials, including graphene, has been dynamically developing. The production of thin film carbon structures using various techniques and their potential application requires their specialized characterization and determination of their physical and chemical properties.

The Special Issue will cover (but not be limited to) the following topics:

• Obtaining thin film carbon structures;
• Characterization of carbon- and graphene-based thin films;
• Application of carbon thin films as sensors, transducers, optical elements, solar cells, etc.;
• Carbon and graphene structure-based electronic and photonic devices.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are welcome. You could refer to the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/carbon_graphene_based_thin_flims

Prof. Miroslaw Szybowicz
Guest Editor

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