Advances in Low-Dimensional Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Device Application, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2025) | Viewed by 770
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Interests: 2D materials; chemical vapor deposition; optical spectroscopy
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Interests: synthesis; nanomaterials; 2D materials; physics; surface characterization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the rapid development of nanotechnology has enabled the innovative design and precise control of thin film synthesis, characterization, and device applications. As a result, researchers have discovered and studied a number of novel material systems that possess fundamentally new structures and physical properties. In particular, low-dimensional materials exhibit unique properties due to quantum confinement and large surface area. These classes of materials include quantum dots, nanowires, nanotubes, and recently emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, MXenes, and perovskite semiconductors. A plethora of electronic properties and quasiparticles in 2D materials, including plasmons, polaritons, trions, and excitons, can all be controlled and modulated. In addition, these materials exhibit novel physical properties such as spin and valley polarization, magnetism, superconductivity, and piezoelectricity that depend on composition, crystal structure, twist angle, layer number, and phases. These features have further given rise to many device applications.
Therefore, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, communications, and review articles that focus on (1) discussions on the synthesis of low-dimensional materials for emerging physics and functional device fabrication; (2) characterization approaches for defining low-dimensional materials on an atomic scale and probing their novel structure and physical properties; and (3) device applications of low-dimensional materials in field-effect transistors, sensors, photodetectors, nonvolatile memories, energy conversion, and beyond.
Building on the success of the first volume, which received a positive response and significant contributions, we are excited to open the second volume of this Special Issue. This volume will continue to focus on the latest advancements in the synthesis, characterization, and device applications of low-dimensional materials.
We warmly invite researchers and scholars from all fields to submit their work, including original research papers, communications, and review articles, to contribute to this exciting and rapidly evolving area of research.
Dr. Tianyi Zhang
Dr. Xiaotian Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- low-dimensional materials: quantum dots, nanowires, nanotubes, 2D materials, graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, MXenes, perovskite
- physical and structural characterization: atomic-scale characterization, electron microscopy, spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, raman spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), atomic force microscopy (AFM)
- device applications: field-effect transistors (FETs), sensors, memristors, nonvolatile memories, energy conversion devices, flexible electronics, optoelectronics, photodetectors, energy storage
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