Nonlinear Optical Properties and Applications of 2D Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 911
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthesis of piezoelectric nanomaterials; numerical simulation, design, fabrication, and characterization of optical properties of photonic crystals; photonic sensors; electro-optic, photoconductor, and photorefractive materials; non-linear optics
Interests: nonlinear; nanophotonics; photonics; plasmonics; graphene-based structures; optical metamaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to join the project of the Special Issue “Nonlinear Optical Properties and Applications of 2D Materials” of the journal Crystals. We aim to compile a set of stimulating and high-quality articles to show the community, both academics and people around the world, the new developments on which you and we are working on in our respective institutions.
As you know, 2D materials are some of the most exciting and frontier research subjects in materials science due to their great potential in technological applications that cover the fields of optoelectronics, nanophotonics, devices based on graphene oxide, nanocrystal materials, nanosheets, heterojunctions, monoatomic layers, solar cells, and thin films, to mention a few. A wide diversity of techniques and procedures to synthesize 2D materials, some very cheap and easy to perform, constitute one of the advantages over other types of materials. However, regardless of how simple or complex synthesizing 2D materials can be, many of the novel technological developments that will come in the future will be based on 2D materials. Some of these reasons are the following: 2D materials such as graphene structures, with their high electrical conductivity, low density, and high flexibility, can be used in nanoelectronics, biosensing, and high-frequency devices. On the other hand, 2D photonic materials can confine, trap, and modulate the propagation of a light beam, which are effects that can used in biosensing, signal amplification, and information processing. Hetero-junctions based on thin films can be very useful in the development of high-transmittance diodes or the fabrication of new-generation solar cells. Nevertheless, there is a demand in many other technological or scientific fields for the integration of 2D materials in novel devices.
Dr. José Guadalupe Murillo-Ramírez
Dr. Thomas Christopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- monoatomic layers
- graphene oxide
- photonic materials
- heterojunctions
- thin films
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