Thin Films for Sensing and Electronic Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2021) | Viewed by 3479
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solid state physics; optoelectronics and optics; microelectronics and semiconductor engineering; materials sciences; thin film deposition techniques; superconducting thin films; semiconducting thin films
Interests: materials sciences; thin film deposition techniques; superconducting and semiconducting thin films; micro/nanotechnologies; infrared and terahertz detectors; microwave passive components
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Interests: terahertz optoelectronics applications in imaging, spectroscopy, sensing, and communications: transceivers using silicon integrated circuits; III-V semiconductor sources; semiconducting and superconducting compound detectors; integrated diffraction optics
Interests: material sciences; condensed matter physics; superconductivity; magnetism; magnetic skyrmions; low-dimensional systems; thin-film deposition and characterizations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The prodigious development of deposition techniques for thin films of regular or innovative materials has made it possible to cover many fields of application. These applications can be considered according to their broad field of implementation (environment, transportation, security, health, etc.). They can also be envisaged according to requirement criteria such as temperature behavior, compatibility with the atmospheric conditions (humidity, particles, wind currents, etc.). A third field of properties concerns the nature of the material to be deposited, and the nature of the substrate and its physical properties (roughness, mechanical resistance, temperature resistance) or physicochemical properties (reactivity, vapor pressure). This review is more specifically devoted to fields related to optoelectronics and microelectronics. These very points of view will be oriented according to the criteria set out above, while understanding the functionality of films. This will include materials entering sensing devices of all types, or materials entering information processing circuitry (either optical or electronic), or finally materials used for information transfer (e.g., lines or waveguides). The review will also welcome contributions related to the fabrication of films (by chemical or physical means), as well as their various characterizations (morphology, structural properties, electrical or optical properties, etc.).
Prof. Dr. Alain J. Kreisler
Prof. Dr. Annick F. Dégardin
Dr. Vishal S. Jagtap
Dr. Yasmine Sassa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thin films for optics and electronics
- thin film deposition techniques
- thin film characterization techniques
- sensing materials
- materials for information processing
- materials for information transfer
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