Advanced Two-Dimensional Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted tremendous attention owing to their unique electronic, optical, and quantum properties arising from reduced dimensionality and strong many-body interactions. Since the discovery of graphene, a broad family of layered materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, hexagonal boron nitride, and emerging van der Waals heterostructures, has been extensively investigated for applications in next-generation electronics and optoelectronics. Their exceptional tunability, atomic-scale thickness, and compatibility with heterogeneous integration provide unprecedented opportunities for developing compact, high-performance, and energy-efficient devices.

Recent advances in material synthesis, nanofabrication, and characterization techniques have significantly accelerated the exploration of novel physical phenomena and device functionalities in 2D systems. In particular, the integration of 2D materials with nanophotonic and electronic platforms has enabled new approaches for manipulating charge, spin, valley, and light–matter interactions. These developments have opened promising avenues in plasmonics, integrated optics, valleytronics, photodetection, optical modulation, light emission, sensing, and quantum information technologies. Nevertheless, several challenges remain, including scalable synthesis, interface engineering, environmental stability, device reproducibility, and large-scale integration.

This Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Two-Dimensional Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications”, aims to provide a platform for reporting recent advances in the fundamental understanding, material engineering, and practical implementation of 2D materials and related heterostructures. We welcome original research articles, communications, and review papers addressing both theoretical and experimental aspects of advanced electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Synthesis, growth, and characterization of emerging 2D materials;
2. Electronic, optical, and quantum properties of van der Waals materials;
3. Plasmonics and enhanced light–matter interactions in low-dimensional systems;
4. Integrated photonic and optoelectronic devices based on 2D materials;
5. Valley-dependent physics and valleytronic applications;
6. Nanophotonic, nonlinear optical, and ultrafast phenomena;
7. 2D-material-based photodetectors, modulators, light-emitting devices, and sensors;
8. Heterostructures, interface engineering, and hybrid material systems;
9. Flexible, wearable, and energy-efficient electronic and optoelectronic technologies.

By bringing together contributions from materials science, physics, chemistry, and engineering, this Special Issue seeks to highlight emerging trends and technological breakthroughs, fostering the development of advanced two-dimensional materials for future electronic and optoelectronic applications.

Dr. Lei Huang
Guest Editor

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• 2D materials
• nanophotonics
• optics