II-VI and III-V Semiconductors for Optoelectronic Devices
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2025 | Viewed by 818
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermalization mechanism; ultrafast carrier dynamics; hot carrier solar cells; III-V quantum well structure; thermal photovoltaic solar cells; III-V bulk semiconductors; perovskite photovoltaic materials
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of fundamental theories, such as solid-state physics, quantum mechanics and energy band theory, not only accelerates the advancement of semiconductor physics but also makes semiconductor device manufacturing gradually progress to energy band engineering-based device manufacturing. Compared with traditional silicon-based semiconductors, III-V group compound semiconductors represented by GaAs, GaP and InP possess a high band-gap width, electron mobility and electron saturation rate, making them more applicable for high-speed, high-frequency and high-power optoelectronic devices under high temperatures and intense irradiance conditions. Moreover, the low-dimensional limited structure materials consisting of II-VI group semiconductors, such as CdS, CdTe and CdSe, further diversify material systems for optoelectronic devices. These devices are widely used in semiconductor lighting, power electronic devices, lasers, chemical and biological detection and photovoltaic solar cells, inducing a series of scientific problems in the interdisciplinary field of physics, optics, material sciences, optoelectronics, and so on.
This Special Issue aims to collect the latest research progress of such semiconductors in the fields of solid-state physics, optics and optoelectronics, and explore relevant basic scientific theories and practical technical applications.
Dr. Yi Zhang
Dr. Ziyuan Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- II-VI semiconductors
- III-V semiconductors
- solid-state physics
- optics
- optoelectronics
- lasers
- detectors
- photovoltaic solar cells
- ultrafast carrier dynamics
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