Advanced Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronic Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2023) | Viewed by 3023
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optoelectronic devices; nanomaterials; semiconductors; low-dimensional materials; photodetectors; piezo-phototronic effect
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optoelectronic devices, such as photodetectors, solar cells, phototransistors, and light-emitting diodes, are functional devices made using the photon–electron conversion effect. They are the frontier research field of modern optoelectronic technology and microelectronics technology. They have broad and important applications in diverse fields ranging from military products to civilian products, such as cameras, flame warning, fingerprint recognition, missile tracking, solar energy conversion, and medical detection. In recent years, new technologies, new materials, and new theories have been used to develop new products. Various new optoelectronic devices have continuously emerged, and device performance has been continuously improved.
Compared with traditional bulk or thin film materials, nanostructured materials with a smaller feature size, decent crystal quality, and high light extraction/absorption efficiency have attracted extensive attention. For the same material, affected by the quantum size effect, surface effect, and macroscopic quantum tunnelling effect, nanomaterials tend to show superior properties to bulk materials. Thus, nanomaterials are considered promising building blocks for constructing high-performance optoelectronic devices.
This Special Issue focuses on but is not limited to the controllable synthesis of functional low-dimensional nanomaterials, such as zero-dimensional nanoparticles, one-dimensional nanowires, two-dimensional layered materials or perovskite films, and their applications in photodetectors, solar cells, phototransistors, light-emitting diodes, photomultiplier tubes, nanolasers, etc. In addition, the use of various methods and strategies to improve the performance of optoelectronic devices is also welcome, such as heterostructure construction, surface modification, crystal defect engineering, piezoelectric optoelectronic effects, doping, and local surface plasmon resonance. Both original research and review articles will be considered for publication.
Dr. Xinglai Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- semiconductors
- low-dimensional materials
- solar cells
- photodetectors
- phototransistors
- light-emitting diodes
- photomultiplier tube
- nanolaser
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