Trends in Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The ever-growing development of electronic and optoelectronic materials is the fundamental source of progress in novel devices and systems, which meet the contemporary standards and upcoming challenges related to low-power consumption, energy harvesting, efficient conversion between electrical and optical signals, sensing, or high-speed electrical and optical signal processing, as well as many others.

This Special Issue aims to broadly cover the up-to-date aspects of the theory, design, technology, characterization, and current and future applications of novel materials, particularly concerning the following topics:

- wide-band semiconductor materials, which have gathered substantial interest in applications such as power switching, power conversion, motor drives, and military and consumer electric vehicles;

- ultra-thin layers, composite materials, and new high-k dielectric materials attract enormous attention as a key component of contemporary electronic and opto-electronic devices enabling an increase in the speed of CMOS transistors and a substantial reduction of source-drain leakage and power consumption;

- CMOS-compatible technological platforms of functional materials, nanomaterials, and metamaterials are vibrant research fields constituting paving new means for sensing, nonlinear effects enhancement, imaging, and signal processing;

- development of new materials and media for lasing, light amplification, detection, laser cooling, photovoltaics, and luminophore applications revealing enhanced quantum efficiency over UV, VIS, or IR spectral ranges.

Prof. Jan Szmidt
Dr. Anna Tyszka-Zawadzka
Guest Editors

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