Electrical, Optical, and Transport Properties of Semiconductors

Dear Colleagues,

Semiconductor materials represent the milestone which has served as a foundation for microelectronics to evolve in recent decades. Today that the need for a green economy is mandatory to avoid dramatic scenarios and that even Moore’s Law for silicon is practically approaching its limit, semiconductor research is strongly oriented toward energy and sensing applications.

The demand for more efficient semiconductors in energy conversion has driven research in recent years to produce an incredible effort to create a new class of materials, such as hybrid perovskites. Furthermore, the nanofabrication of semiconductive materials allows the realization of functional systems showing unique geometry-related properties, favoring a strong increase in device sensitivities, but also with important repercussions in band-gap engineering and photovoltaics. The other major challenge of semiconductor research for energy and sensing applications in order to create a “real green economy”, as well as to increase device performances, should be the ability to find ecological pathways for their synthesis and subsequent functionalization at large scale and low cost.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a unique international platform for scientists to publish the latest advancements on the following main topics: 

- Novel forms of semiconducting materials such as nanoparticles, nanosheets, nanorods, quantum dots for energy, and sensing applications; 

- Three-dimensional surface and bulk restructuring/modification of semiconductive materials for the control of light trapping and surface transport properties; 

- Physical, chemical, and optical characterization of semiconductive nanomaterials and exploitation of their outstanding features for device fabrication and integration in complex systems;

- Novel procedures for the synthesis of semiconductor nanomaterials with low-toxicity and low-cost procedures.

Dr. Andrea Orsini
Prof. Dr. Stefano Salvatori
Guest Editors

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