Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Low Dimensional Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Low-dimensional material systems with at least one of their dimensions in the nanometer scale exhibit unusual fundamental physical properties that are interesting for novel designs and revolutionary (multi)functional devices. Notably, nanoscale devices are already featuring in several emerging technologies such as spintronics, nanophotonics, nanoplasmonic, magnonics, flexible and transparent electronics, quantum computing, and other advanced applications.

As a completely different approach to the top-down methods used in seminal works in manufacturing low-dimension semiconductor structures, bottom-up assembly methods of nanostructures have been applied to materials science and have been widely used in nanoscience and technology. Among low-dimensional structures, quantum dots, nanoparticles, nanowires, ultra-thin films, and hybrid nanostructures with diversified geometries appear as building blocks for novel applications with physical properties based on quantum phenomena. Control of synthesis and processing at the nanometer scale are well-established and mature today, offering many opportunities to design, build, and adapt these low-dimensional material systems, but many fundamental issues and technological barriers still need to be overcome.

This Special Issue is devoted to works on the structure, electronic and magnetic properties of low-dimensional systems including, both theoretical and experimental contributions, for fundamental and applicable advances based on knowledge of their physical properties.

Fabrication and processing methods as well as characterization and performance evaluation of low-dimensional systems are encouraged topics. Numerical and computational approaches devoted to showing new challenges and providing insight into new means of the exploitation of low-dimensional systems of interest for academia and industry are also welcome.

Topics suitable for publication in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• spin transfer, spin–orbit interaction, and spin-related phenomena;
• magnetization dynamics and skyrmions;
• nano-oxides, oxide heterostructures, and multiferroics;
• plasmonic nanoparticles and plasmonic photovoltaics;
• two-dimensional electron gas and topological insulators;
• optical- and phonon-related phenomena;
• quantum dots, nanoparticles, core–shell nanoparticles, nanowires and nanorods;
• van der Waals material systems
• two-dimensional superconductors and polymers;
• carbon nanostructures (graphene, carbon nanotubes, etc.);
• two‐dimensional materials beyond graphene: silicene, germanene, stanene, etc;
• fabrication, self-assembling, and nanolithography processing;
• characterizations and evaluations of nanomaterials, including theoretical and numerical methods;
• new frontiers in low-dimensional physics and other novel phenomena.

Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome in this Special Issue addressing the fundamental and applied physics of low-dimensional materials fabricated by self-assembling, self-limiting deposition techniques, lithographic and non-lithographic advanced patterns, among other techniques, including the introduction of electrically/optically/magnetically-active impurities and defects to exploit their effects on synthesis and physical properties in low-dimensional structures.

Prof. Dante H Mosca
Guest Editor

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• Low-dimensional systems
• Nanostructured materials
• Fabrication and processing
• Micro- and nano-devices
• Design and modeling