Optical Properties of Crystalline Semiconductors and Nanomaterials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 30
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Interests: shock compression; quantum dots; semiconductors; photoluminescence; carbon dots; nanomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Among the many interesting and technologically attractive materials, semiconductors have always held a special position in research. For the past century, researchers have been working rigorously on many fronts to report the uses and possible application pathways stemming from carriers created by photons. The semiconductor industry is not just a minor subset of the electronics industry, and it continues to grow. Elements and compound semiconductors have not only been researched academically but also commercialized into vast industries. Many band-gap engineering methods have led to novel uses of these materials.
Meanwhile, new classes of materials at lower dimensions are becoming inevitable routes to novel optoelectronic applications. Again, semiconductor nanoparticles such as metal selenides, perovskites, or lead halides have been predominant in this class due to their tuneability and broad range of photoelectric and optoelectronic properties. With quantum sensing applications progressing rapidly, these materials’ uses will continue to grow. Theoretical experiments are being conducted to understand the mechanism of quantum confinement in novel materials, and the field is evolving very fast.
This Special Issue will bring together recently derived state-of-the-art semiconductor bulk and nanoscale properties. Contributions are encouraged from researchers writing papers on the synthesis, processing, band-gap engineering, and photoelectric and optoelectronic properties of crystalline semiconductors, as well as semiconductor nanoparticles. Papers will focus on various light–matter interactions in semiconductor materials, including, but not limited to, theoretical experiments on photoconduction, photoluminescence, catalysis, defects, doping pathways, material growth for quantum technology, and quantum sensing applications. We invite full-length research papers, review articles, and communications with significant novel contributions.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Crystals.
Dr. Mithun Bhowmick
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- semiconductors
- optoelectronics
- quantum dots
- nanoparticles
- nanostructures
- quantum materials
- photoluminescence
- photoelectric
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