Recent Progress in Epitaxial Growth of Thin Films and Their Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 206
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thin films; PLD; XRD; SEM; EBSD; combinatorial structures; transport properties
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For years, the synthesis and characterization of epitaxial thin films have attracted great interest from the global scientific community. The properties associated with these materials are diverse such as electronic transport, magnetism, and optical properties due to the emergence of transparent oxide-based conductors. New synthesis and characterization methods have made it possible to develop new approaches such as combinatorial epitaxy, making it possible to control thin films with composition gradients or local epitaxy. Finally, significant progress made in electron microscopy (EBSD, 3D-ED, etc.) has made it possible to locally or macroscopically characterize the epitaxial growth relationships.
This Special Issue aims to publish original research papers related to the latest advances in the synthesis of epitaxial thin films and their characterisation, from theory to application.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit manuscripts on the "surface modification and characterization of transparent and conductive thin films" for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, as well as comprehensive reviews are welcome. Please feel free to contact me, the Guest Editor, in case you have any questions.
Dr. Adrian David
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thin films
- epitaxy
- structural characterization
- PLD
- MBE
- sputtering
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