Electrical Conductivity of Nanostructured Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Electronic transport in nanostructures is an essential part of nanoscience. Understanding its concepts and methods is vital to the successful design of devices at the nanoscale. Over the past few decades, the electrical conductivity of nanostructured materials has been a topic of active experimental and theoretical study and a vast number of results have been published. With the shrinking of the building blocks of the nanostructured materials, their electrical properties transit from classical and semiclassical transport to quantum transport. Variously quantum transport behaviors such as single electron tunneling, ballistic transport, Coulomb blockade, as well as phase interference dominate the electrical conductivity. These make the nanostructured materials promising candidates for a future nanoscaled architecture to fabricate new generation microelectronic, thermoelectric, photoelectronic, as well as various sensing devices.

The present Special Issue of Nanomaterials is aimed at presenting the current state-of-the-art research and technological effort aimed at the control of matter and device fabrication at a small spatial scale, including heterojunctions, two-dimensional atomic layers, nanowires, and quantum dots, as well as self-assembled structures such as one-, two,- and three-dimensional nanoparticle arrangements, the understanding of the underlying physics of electronic conductivity of these nanoscale conducting objects, as well as the developing of novel devices based on such nanostructured conducting systems. We invite authors to contribute original research articles and review articles covering the current progress in this discipline.

Prof. Dr. Min Han
Guest Editor

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