Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 2736
Special Issue Editor
Interests: low-dimensional semiconductors; silicon nanocrystals; sustainable materials; Raman spectroscopy; photoluminescence; photovoltaics; optoelectronics
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Dear Colleagues,
The global quest for developing sustainable and energy-efficient electronics and optoelectronics has motivated the scientific community and industry to look toward reducing the size and improving the properties and functionalities of semiconductor materials. In this regard, semiconductor nanocrystals encompass a material platform whose physical-chemical properties can be strategically tailored for target applications through, for example, control of size, shape, composition, and surface termination. Despite impressive advances in the demonstration of devices with good charge transport characteristics, tunable light emission, and efficient light absorption, such as field-effect transistors, solar cells, light-emitting devices, and photodetectors, further progress needs to be reached towards improving their performance. This can only be achieved through deep characterization and a fundamental understanding of the material's properties, including unveiling the phenomena ruling at the nanoscale.
In this Special Issue, we welcome papers focused on the latest advances in the study of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals as well as on their possible application in optoelectronic devices.
Dr. Bruno Falcão
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- semiconductor nanocrystals
- electronic and optical properties
- charge transport
- luminescence
- raman spectroscopy
- size and surface engineering
- electronic band structure
- optoelectronic devices
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